Sunday, 11th February
39th Annual Lorne Genome Conference 2018
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Sunday, 11th February
Monday, 12th February
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Speakers
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:
CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing: Biology, Technology and Ethics
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Jennifer Doudna
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
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Ali Shilatifard
Defining how problematic DNA replication impacts on chromosome segregation
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Ian D Hickson
Imaging chromatin dynamics during the DNA damage response by FLIM-FRET microscopy
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Elizabeth Hinde
Actin polymerization alters nuclear architecture in response to DNA replication stress to maintain genome stability
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Anthony J Cesare
Investigating the function of 5-methylcytosine in mRNA biology
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Ulrike Schumann
BRG1 maintains chromatin at active enhancers and the expression of proliferation genes in prostate cancer
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Katherine A Giles
Tools for preprocessing and benchmarking single cell RNA-sequencing data
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Matthew E Ritchie
Sequential occupation of the nuclear periphery by H2A.Zac and H3K9me2 accompanies pluripotency loss in Human embryonic stem cells
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Georgia R Kafer
Intron retention redefines post-transcriptional gene regulation in vertebrate species
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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
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Waruni Abeysekera
Developing a novel embryonic lung progenitor culture system: technique and applications
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Casey Ah-Cann
RNA processing is critical for the generation of mature megakaryocytes capable of producing platelets
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Tanveer Ahmad
Visualisation of telomeres by telomere fibre-FISH
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Joshua AM Allen
Characterisation of NHL-2 in small RNA pathways of
Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Joshua Anderson
Small RNA profiling of the reproductive tissues of the honeybee
Apis mellifera
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Alyson Ashe
The phosphorylation of H3.3 Serine 31 and its role in heterochromatin formation
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Vinod Benjamin
Genes with human-specific features, ncRNAs and innovations in genetic and epigenetic mechanisms cooperate to brain evolution
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Maina Bitar
msgbsR
: An R package for analysing methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme sequencing data
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Jimmy Breen
Viral genome analysis: bioinformatic analysis of RNA elements essential for replication
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Christopher M Brown
Links between DNA replication stress and telomere extension in cancer cells
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Tracy M Bryan
Analysis of functionally deficient variants of transcription factor
SIM2
present in patients with intellectual disabilities
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Emily L Button
Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping: a potential therapeutic strategy for Marfan syndrome
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Jessica Cale
Efficient homology-directed repair using single-stranded DNA templates
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Michel Cannieux
Disrupting promoter-enhancer interaction of
Bcl11b
in T cell by CRISPR/Cas9
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Wing Fuk Chan
Differential methylation analysis of reduced representation bisulfite sequencing experiments
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Yunshun Chen
Identification of ALT phenotypes in telomerase positive cancers
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Eugene Choi
Non-coding transcription and mitotic recombination of the ribosomal RNA gene repeats in cancer
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Daria A. Chudakova
Fine-mapping reveals complex genetic architecture underlying DNA methylation
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Vignesh Kartik Chundru
Long-read sequencing reveals the splicing profile of the neuropsychiatric disease gene
CACNA1C
in human brain
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Michael B Clark
Electron microscopy of human telomerase
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Scott Cohen
Chiron: Translating nanopore raw signal directly into nucleotide sequence using deep learning
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Lachlan Coin
Structural and functional analysis of the
C. elegans
TRIM protein NHL-2
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Rhys N Colson
Mutation Analysis and Effect on Prognosis of Direct Antiglobulin Test Positivity in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
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Caitlin Coombes
Four gene regulatory functions of oncogenic potential for NONO protein in neuroblastoma
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Jack A L Cooper
Detecting RNA Structure Heterogeneity in Cells
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Vincent Corbin
FGF9 homodimerization is required for male sex determination
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Brittany Croft
Can genomic and phenotypic analyses unravel how the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae evolves in emulsion culture?
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Emelyne Cunnington
Mechanism for RNA-mediated regulation of the histone methyltransferase Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2)
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Chen Davidovich
Using
in utero
electroporation to model a second-hit mechanism for GATOR1-related focal epilepsy in mice
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Ruby Dawson
FANCM protein maintains genome stability by removing co-transcriptional R-loops
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Andrew J Deans
Hormone-mediated autophagy-dependent cell death in
Drosophila
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Donna Denton
Representing the human genome with chiral DNA reference standards
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Ira Deveson
The Histone Variant H2A.Z is a Master Regulator of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
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Renae Domaschenz
VISUALISING THE NONSENSE: Fluorescent quantitation of the nonsense mediated mRNA decay pathway during brain development
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Deepti Domingo
Genome-guided characterisation of evolved xylose metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Richard J Edwards
MitoWisdom: An Unsupervised Mitochondrial Genome Analyser Using Deep Learning
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Tansel Ersavas
Unsupervised demultiplexing of single-cell barcodes from raw nanopore sequencing data
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James M Ferguson
Comparison of predicted and actual consequences of missense mutations
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Matt Field
The Role of Twist in Glutamate Stimulated Neuronal Apoptosis
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Elizabeth A Ford
Analysis of ATAC sequencing data
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Alexandra L Garnham
Understanding the role of cellular mosaicism in PCDH19 epilepsy and intellectual disability.
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Jozef Gecz
Mechanisms of regulation of the transcription factor Single-Minded 1 in obesity
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Alexis G Gerassimou
Expanding the repertoire of Transcription Factor Motifs
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Kevin R Gillinder
Modelling Breast Cancer Progression Using Single-cell RNA-seq
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Brian S Gloss
The Landscape Of Circular RNA Expression In The Human Brain
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Akira Gokoolparsadh
Using long-read sequencing to detect haplotype-specific differential methylation
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Quentin Gouil
The Human "Muscle-ome": Studying the skeletal muscle transcriptome to understand normal muscle biology and disease
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Hayley Goullée
atz-1
promotes meiosis to maintain germline chromosomal integrity
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Taylin E Gourley
Development of Molecular Therapies for
PRPF31
-associated Retinitis Pigmentosa Using Splice-switching Antisense Oligonucleotides
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Janya Grainok
Investigating the role of histone acetylation in angiogenesis
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Zoe L Grant
Improved Chemistry for NGS Library Cleanup and Size Selection
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David Grasso
Optimisation of massively parallel single cell RNA-seq method (Drop-seq) in tumour tissues
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Kristina Handler
Transcriptional complexity of non-coding genomic regions associated with cognitive function
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Simon A Hardwick
RNA splicing in mammalian sex determination
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Vincent Harley
SRY and male sex bias in Parkinson’s disease
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Vincent Harley
Confident effect sizes controlling FDR provide an ideal ranking of differentially expressed genes
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Paul F Harrison
A highly selective mechanism to discriminate transposon RNA from self-RNA in
Drosophila
ovaries
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Rippei Hayashi
Protein recoding by ADAR1-mediated RNA editing is not essential for normal development and homeostasis
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Jacki E Heraud-Farlow
Transcriptional Consequences of Cancer Fusion Genes
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Erin E Heyer
Therapeutic potential of antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon inclusion for Stargardt disease
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Di Huang
Genome-wide discovery of translation control mechanisms
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Yoshika Janapala
The role of Smchd1 in mediating higher order chromatin conformation
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Natasha Jansz
Whole genome sequencing is improving the identification of genetic causes of paediatric cataracts, including novel cataract genes.
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Johanna L Jones
Loss of topoisomerase III beta is associated with hallmarks of genome instability
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Paul Kalitsis
Metabolic and transcriptomic analyses of Müller glial cells of the retina
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Thaksaon Kittipassorn
Regulation of novel 'eosinokines' in the development of beige fat
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Alexander Knights
Investigating the role of mutant DNMT3A in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and other cancers
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Andrew Kueh
Mitochondrial variant calling in 15,496 individuals in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD)
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Kristen Laricchia
Personalized analytics to improve diagnostic rates in clinical sequencing.
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Timo Lassmann
Elucidating the molecular signatures underlying ALT activity in tumours
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Michael Lee
Stepwise engagement of the Killer T cell function is underscored by H3K27 demethylation
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Jasmine Li
A Cross Species and Multi-omic Analysis Indicates the Exon/Intron Structure Preceding Initiation Codons Predicts their Translation Efficiency
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Chun Shen Lim
Nuclear factor one transcription factors regulate developmental enhancers during brain development: insights from motif discovery
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Jonathan WC Lim
Investigating computational analysis pipelines and genomic proximity interactions in T lymphocytes
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Ning Liu
Quantifying chromatin structure at the level of nucleosomes by correlative live cell FLIM-FRET microscopy and fixed cell single molecule localization microscopy.
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Jieqiong Lou
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