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Biotechnology Workshops:
1) Routes to Commercialization
2) Patents in Biotechnology

1.45pm – 6.00pm, Friday, 1 October 2010, Melbourne Convention Centre

Convenor Dr Mick Foley, La Trobe University, Australia (m.foley@latrobe.edu.au )

Program

Biotechnology uses living things to provide useful products in medicine, technology and other areas. And it encompasses everything from brewing beer to gene therapy. In the sometimes long and complex path from discovery to the clinic there are critical questions that need to be carefully considered, such as; what are the best ways to commercialize important discoveries and also what is the best strategy for protecting intellectual property associated with these discoveries? As part of OzBio 2010 we are running two concurrent workshops which are intended to explore some of the issues associated with these two areas. In the ‘Routes to Commercialization’ workshop, speakers with a range of experiences in the field of commercialization will explore different aspects of how life scientists can successfully commercialize the fruits of their research. The ‘Patents in Biotechnology’ workshop will examine different strategies that need to be considered when protecting valuable intellectual property. The current patent dispute surrounding the BRCA1 gene in diagnosis of breast cancer will be explored in an effort to appreciate the legal challenges in this area of IP law.

Patents in Biotechnology:

Amanda McBratney, McCulloch Robertson Patent Attorneys
Amanda Stark, Griffith Hack Patent Attorneys
Julia Clark, Director of Commercialisation WEHI
Richard Jefferson, CEO CAMBIA

Routes to Commercialization:

Ian Cooke CEO Foursight Assoc.
Samantha Cobb CEO AdAlta
Jeffrey Smith Bioassay LINK

Speed Networking
Careers in molecular life sciences

2.00pm – 4.00pm, Friday, 1 October 2010
Melbourne Convention Centre, Meeting Room 204

Convenors

Dr Samantha Richardson, RMIT University (samantha.richardson@rmit.edu.au)
Dr Janine Danks, RMIT University (janine.danks@rmit.edu.au)

Program

The OzBio Careers Event entitled, “Speed Networking�� will provide you with a unique networking opportunity. In about 60 minutes you will have an opportunity to meet 16 leaders from academia, industry and government. Come prepared with a two-minute introduction that “sells�� who you are and what you do. This is an opportunity to learn networking skills and meet members in all career stages. You will make key connections that are otherwise difficult to achieve in meetings as large as OzBio2010. Come and join the fun while expanding your network.

Enquiry in Life Science Education: Asking good questions, Finding good answers

1.45pm - 5.30pm, Friday, 1 October 2010
Melbourne Convention Centre

Enquiry-based learning strategies are used to develop core skills in analysis and problem-solving, foster active engagement in learning and to model scientific inquiry. Problem-based learning, case-based learning and similar approaches ask students to investigate real-world problems: identifying the issues, gathering information, developing hypotheses, drawing conclusions. This workshop will explore practical strategies to bring enquiry into molecular and life science courses and to design tasks that specifically develop scientific inquiry skills.

The Enquiry in Life Science Education workshop is a public workshop and includes the preceding education plenary lecture delivered by Professor Harvey Lodish, MIT. Registrants to the OzBio2010 meeting have complimentary registration. Online registration will be available to external participants in mid June, on this site

REGISTRATION FEES

All prices are quoted in Australian dollars ($A) and include GST (Goods and Services Tax).

By 27.08.10: $30 / After 27.08.10: $40 / After 22.09.10/Onsite: $50

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

• 11:30 Registration Opens
• 12:00 Invitrogen Education Award – Presented to Dr Janet Macaulay, Monash University, Australia
• 12:05-12:50 IUBMB Ed Wood lecture Prof Harvey Lodish, MIT, USA The education of undergraduate and graduate students in the biomedical sciences – education for what?
• 12:50-13:45 Lunch break (lunch may be purchased at nearby cafés)
• 13:45-17:30 Enquiry in Life Science Education Workshop:
  Prof. Vicky Minderhout, Seattle University, USA
  Assoc. Prof. Pauline Ross, University of Western Sydney, Australia
  Assoc. Prof. Trevor Anderson, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  Dr Janet Macauley, Monash University, Australia
  Dr Kristine Elliott, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Dr Helen Irving, Monash University, Australia
  Dr Elizabeth Johnson, La Trobe University, Australia

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

For further information please contact:
Assoc. Prof. Trevor Anderson (Anderson@ukzn.ac.za)
Dr Janet Macauley (janet.macaulay@med.monash.edu.au )
Dr Elizabeth Johnson (E.Johnson@latrobe.edu.au )

Super Resolution Microscopy Workshop

1.45pm - 6.00pm, Friday, 1 October 2010
Melbourne Convention Centre – Meeting Room 212

Dear Colleagues

In the last few years, the development of improved optical components has pushed the spatial resolution of optical microscopy techniques into the sub-micron regime. For many years it was assumed that the resolution of light microscopy could not be further improved because conventional light microscopy is limited by the degree to which light can be focussed - effectively to about half of the wavelength of the light used (i.e. about 0.25 micrometres). However, the so-called "diffraction barrier" can be circumvented. New techniques have been developed that use tricks such as interfering light beams, or saturation of the photons that are imaged or photo-activation of fluorescent chromophores, coupled with careful and sophisticated data analysis. Very recent developments have pushed the achievable resolution towards the nanometre scale. These so-called "super-resolution" optical microscopy methods will provide detail that was beyond imagining only a few years ago.

Members of the CXS (ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science; www.coecxs.org) are putting together a workshop on Super-Resolution Microscopy Techniques. The Workshop will highlight recent developments and applications of super resolution imaging methods. It will be held as a public session within the OzBio2010 meeting.

The Workshop will be held on Friday 1st October 2010, 1.45 pm to 6 pm at the Melbourne Convention Centre, Meeting Room 212 (see flyer). We have the following speakers and hope that you will find the workshop informative and stimulating.

Provisional Program

1.45 Introduction - Keith Nugent, Melbourne University

2.00 Super Resolution Optical Microscopy: Past, Present, and Future - Guy Cox, Sydney University

2.30 Breaking the Diffraction Barrier: Biological Applications of Localization Microscopy - Sam Hess, University of Maine, USA

3.10 Super-resolution revelations: Microbial Cell Biology Revealed by OMX 3D Structured Illumination Microscopy - Cynthia Whitchurch, University of Technology, Sydney

3.40 Afternoon tea

4.00 Picosecond Temporal and Nanoscale Spatial Resolution Studies of Polymer Films - Trevor Smith, University of Melbourne

4.30 Application of PALM and STORM to Cell Biology - Kat Gaus, University of NSW

5.00 Structured Illumination Microscopy for Imaging Malaria Parasites - Leann Tilley, La Trobe University

5.30 Conclusion - Andrew Peele, La Trobe University

Registration is free but numbers are limited. If you would like to attend this forum, please reply to Fabienne Perani (f.perani@latrobe.edu.au).

Please click here to download the flyer.