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Key Dates
Abstract poster submission deadline:
30 June 2008
End of earlybird registration deadline:
23 June 2008
Notification of acceptance of abstracts:
02 August 2008
Guaranteed Hotel Reservation Deadline:
18 August 2008
Registrations must be made onsite after:
18 September 2008
ComBio2008:
21 - 25 September 2008
Scientific Programme
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The meeting will be fully integrated between the three participating groups. There will be over 50 symposia with up to 6 concurrent symposia at any one time. An extra ARC Network concurrent session will also run on the Tuesday. The following six thematic ‘streams’ will run throughout the meeting.
- Gene and genome regulation
- Biomolecular structure
- Cell architecture and signaling
- Plant biology
- Developmental biology
- Biochemistry and metabolism
You are invited to submit an abstract for either oral or poster presentation. A number of places have been reserved for oral presentation in each of the symposia and we particularly wish to encourage early career researchers and students to request oral presentations.
The scientific programme will commence on Monday morning, 22 September and will continue over four full days to Thursday, 25 September. It will include 22 Plenary Lectures, of which 15 are by invited speakers and 7 are special Society Lectures: Lemberg Lecture and Roche Lecture (ASBMB), Peter Goldacre Lecture, R.N. Robertson Lecture, the ASPS Teaching Lecture and the Annals of Botany Lecture (ASPS) and the ANZSCDB President’s Medal Lecture. In addition there will be presentations of the various society awards and medals.
Plenary Speakers
Invited overseas plenary speakers who have indicated their willingness to participate in the meeting include (please click on any name for a bio):
| Plenary Speaker | Provisional Abstract Title |
| Kathryn Anderson | Cilia and hedgehog signalling in the mouse |
| Sarah Assmann | Plant abscisic acid signalling: new molecules and new technologies |
| Timothy Bestor | Biology of genomic methylation patterns |
| Richard Carthew | Title to be advised |
| Manuela Chaves | Grapevine and berry development under deficit irrigation - physiological and molecular regulations |
| Stephen Cohen | MicroRNA functions |
| Dean DellaPenna | Translational genomics on a global scale: working at the plant-human interface |
| Sir Alan Fersht | The tumor suppressor p53: structure, function-rescue |
| Maria Hatzoglou | Amino acid transporters at the cross roads of cell survival during stress |
| So Iwata | High-throughput production of human membrane proteins |
| Leon Kochian | Investigating and characterizing the molecular determinants of crop aluminum tolerance using sorghum as a model system |
| Werner Kühlbrandt | Mechanisms of membrane transport from electron cryo-microscopy |
| Rob Last | Functional genomic approaches to secondary metabolism in tomato trichomes |
| Stephen Long | Adequate bioenergy feedstocks without negative environmental and supply impacts. A realizable decadal challenge to the basic biosciences |
| Scott Poethig | Turning over a new leaf: regulation of vegetative phase change by MiRNAs |
| Pernille Rørth | Guidance mechanisms in collective cell migration |
| Thomas Steitz | Motion in the functioning of macromolecular machines |
Career Development Forum: Sunday 21 September 2008, 16:00 - 18:30
This Forum is free of charge to ComBio2008 registrants. Full details will be listed on the website as they become available. Please indicate
your interest by ticking the appropriate box on the registration form.
Education Symposia: Tuesday & Wednesday 23 & 24 September 2008, 12:45 - 14:15
Education symposia will be held in the lunch break on both the Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday’s session will incorporate the Invitrogen Education Award Lecture, and Wednesday’s session will incorporate the ASPS Teaching Award Presentation and Lecture.
The Great RNA Debate: Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 18:00 - 19:00
National Convention Centre
The great RNA debate, an interactive, informal “Shoot-the-breeze” session on what are the newly discovered functions of RNA, including debate on the current controversial issues and ideas of the RNAi/non-coding RNA field. (Dinner to follow at 20:00 for those who are interested. Organised by the RnA Special Interest Group). Please indicate your interest by ticking the box on the online registration form.
Audiovisual Facilities
Data projection will be available in all lecture rooms. Presentations will be accepted on DVD, CD or a USB Mass Storage Device. Windows XP PowerPoint 2003 will be used on the master server. Macintosh users will have access to a Macintosh notebook located at the lectern however we prefer that Macintosh files be transferred to the server and checked for faithful reproduction on the PC. Should you have any questions prior to the meeting, please contact the AV Director, Mark Stevens by e-mail: mark@markitmedia.com.au
