Sunday, 12th February
44th Lorne Genome Conference 2023
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Sunday, 12th February
Monday, 13th February
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Registration Desk Open
12:00PM - 6:00PM
Sunday, 12th February
Lobby
Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
1:45PM - 2:00PM
Sunday, 12th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chair: Marnie Blewitt
Session 1: Regulation of gene expression
2:00PM - 3:10PM
Sunday, 12th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Kate Quinlan & Greg Neely
Sponsored by:
Invited Speaker Presentation - Discovery and characterization of splicing regulatory networks implicated in brain disorders
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Benjamin Blencowe
Invited Speaker Presentation - Circadian Clocks and Their Impact on Metabolism, Aging and Longevity
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Joseph S Takahashi
Afternoon Tea / Hotel Check-in
3:10PM - 3:50PM
Sunday, 12th February
Convention Centre
Session 2: Comparative and Population genomics
3:50PM - 5:00PM
Sunday, 12th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Michael Clark & Emily Wong
Invited Speaker Presentation - Fine-scale population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease risk in British South Asians
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Hilary Martin
Invited Speaker Presentation - The Australian Dingo is an Early Offshoot of Modern Breed Dogs
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Matt Field
Mid-Career Award Presentations (Millenium Prizes)
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Sunday, 12th February
Heritage Ballroom
Chairs: Peter Boag & Archa Fox
Sponsored by:
Clonal dynamics of cell plasticity in human breast cancer cells
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Melanie Eckersley-Maslin
Machine learning integration of transcriptome-wide spatial sequencing data and ultra-high plex spatial proteomic data enables the prioritisation of cancer drug targets
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Quan Nguyen
Trade mixer (Exhibitors and Lab Heads Only)
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Sunday, 12th February
Convention Centre
Welcome Function
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Sunday, 12th February
Lorne Common (Footy Oval)
Poster Session 1
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Sunday, 12th February
Convention Centre
Whither the sex chromosome: the fate of sex chromosomes during the evolution of monoicy from dioicy in liverworts
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John Bowman
Spatial lncRNA signatures in colorectal cancer
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Holly R Pinkney
Three-dimensional chromatin organisation shapes origin activation and replication fork directionality
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Kate Giles
LINE-1 activity in mammalian primordial germ cell specification
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Renee R. Chu
Cordycepin induces widespread mRNA 3'UTR lengthening
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Rachael E Turner
Genome wide CRISPR screen identifies
SAMHD1
and translation initiation factors,
eIF4A1
and
eIF4G1
as genes involved in the regulation of replication stress induced mitotic cell death
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Aisling O'Connor
The Human Dendritic Cell Atlas: An Integrated Transcriptional Tool to Study Human Dendritic Cell Biology
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Zahra Elahi
JBrowse 2: A modular genome browser with views of synteny and structural variation
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Ian Holmes
A nucleosomal DNA-interacting surface in EZH2 is required for the canonical function of PRC2
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Qi Zhang
Uncovering Drug-Protein and Protein-Protein Interactions with Deep Mutational Scanning
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Matthew J Wakefield
Ligation derived artefacts can cloud somatic recombination event calling using nanopore sequencing
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Nathan Smits
The three-dimensional structure of chromatin condensed by PRC1-CBX8 is porous and stabilized by dynamic multivalent interactions
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Xiao Han Ng
A comprehensive investigation of genomic variants in Prostate Cancer reveals 30 regulatory variants with possible functional impact
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Mahdieh Labani
Distinct modes of telomere synthesis and mitotic telomere lengthening in cancers engaging in Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
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Robert Lu
CRISPR-gene editing in haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells: modelling and therapy for telomere biology disorders
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Chen (Ashley) Yang
A mechanism of mitotic telomere deprotection
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Ronnie Ren Jie Low
Discovering the influence of an enriched environment on neuronal epigenome ageing as a potential strategy for treating age-related diseases.
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Bao Ngoc Tran
Post-transcriptional regulation of fungal cell walls by the conserved RNA-binding virulence factor Ssd1
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Marah Jnied
A uniquely prevalent deleterious variant within POMC gene leading to obesity in Estonian Biobank cohort
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Erik Abner
MisMatchFinder: Detection of somatic mutation signatures from low coverage WGS
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Sebastian Hollizeck
Nuclear F-actin and the DNA damage response regulate telomerase recruitment in cancer cells
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Ashley Harman
Eyes absent family members EYA4 and EYA1 promote the kinase activity and mitotic function of PLK1 through dephosphorylation of pY445
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Christopher B Nelson
Disparities in spatially variable gene calling highlight the need for benchmarking spatial transcriptomics methods.
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Natalie C Charitakis
FUBP1/Psi function in the niche is essential to prevent neural stem cell overproliferation
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Damien Muckle
Controlling translation initiation is key to successful recombinant protein production
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Chun Shen Lim
Subclass II bHLHs are a key regulator in the ancestral function of spore wall deposition in land plants
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Jonathan Levins
Finding treatments for chromatin disorders: early postnatal interventions to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes
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Hannah K Vanyai
Inhibition of retinoic acid signaling impairs cranial and spinal neural tube closure in mice lacking the Grainyhead-like 3 transcription factor
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Zihao Deng
Integrative analysis reveals marker genes for intestinal mucosa barrier repairing in clinical patients
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Zihao Deng
Intronic
FTO
deletions lead to
IRX3
oncogene activation through enhancer hijack in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
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Sunniyat Rahman
Genomic comparison of primary dermal melanoma (PDM) and subcutaneous metastatic melanoma (SCM)
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Peinan Zhao
ResTORing bone growth - investigating mTORC1 activation during perinatal catch-up growth of mouse limbs
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Shanika L. Amarasinghe
A method for stabilising the XX karyotype in female mESC cultures
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Andrew Keniry
The functional domains of the KLF transcription factor family may contribute to their different
in vivo
genomic localisation
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Manan Shah
Discovery of novel neuropsychiatric disorder risk gene transcripts in human brain
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Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi
Effects of loss of the Börjeson–Forssman–Lehmann syndrome gene Phf6 on brain development
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Melody PY Leong
Nanopore direct RNA sequencing reveals insight into the transcriptome and epitranscriptome of human brain
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Josie Gleeson
The role of class II KNOX and BELL TALE-class homeodomain genes in
Marchantia polymorpha
sporophyte development
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Tom Dierschke
Adipose tissue-resident eosinophils are transcriptionally distinct from blood eosinophils: harnessing this knowledge to uncover anti-obesity targets
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Kate Quinlan
A deep learning model for accurate identification of RNA modification sites
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Korawich Uthayopas
GATA1 binding in the
beta globin
locus: at the mercy of DNA methylation?
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Sonia Goozee
Identification of cell barcodes from long-read sc-RNAseq with BLAZE
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Sefi D.J Prawer
Progesterone receptor cooperates with RUNX1 and promotes chromatin accessibility to activate gene expression in ovarian granulosa cells during ovulation
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Thao Dinh
PRIMITI: A machine learning model for accurate prediction of miRNA target identification
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Korawich Uthayopas
Transcriptome-wide analysis of the closed-loop model of translation
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Yu-Ting Hung
Analyzing neuronal images of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease derived from induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)
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Deshani Geethika Poddenige
DNA methylation directs repression of γ-globin through the MBD2-NuRD complex in haemoglobin switching
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Henry W Bell
Interpretable machine learning for identifying electrophysiological indicators of ALS using intracellular and extracellular recordings from iPSC-derived neurons
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Nisal Ranasinghe
Mapping histone modifications in fetal and adult-like red blood cells
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Michael O'Dea
Investigation of the candidate sex determination gene AMHY in monotremes
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Frank Grutzner
Amino acid availability regulates tumour immune escape through alternative polyadenylation of MHC class I
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Keziah E Ting
Divergence in genome structure and function underpinning root systems in legumes
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Ying Sun
discoAnt – A novel workflow for the identification and quantification of transcript isoforms from long-read amplicon sequencing
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Shweta S Joshi
Evaluating the direct and indirect effects of SARS-CoV-2 on multiple organ systems using stem cell-derived human tissue
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Michael See
Paediatric glioma histone H3.3 K27M/G34R mutations drive abnormalities in PML Nuclear Bodies
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Hsiao P J Voon
Maternal adipose tissue DNA methylation and gene expression associated with excessive gestational weight gain
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Yen Ting Wong
Most Australian stem cell lines are not formally registered
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Mengqi Hu
Utilizing a “four core genotypes” rat model to investigate sex differences in human disease
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Shanie Landen
Exploitation of the UDP-glucose hydrolase NUDT22 as novel target in cancer therapy
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Melanie Walter
The L1-Cre Reporter System: Circumventing Engineered LINE-1 Retrotransposon Silencing
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Alexander L. Carleton
Notch is required in the niche to control neural stem cell fate
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Tanya Javaid
The lack of NSUN2 RNA methyltransferase affects the role of UPF1 RBP
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Marco Guarnacci
Dissecting the role of RNA-DNA hybrids in DNA damage and repair
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Attila Horvath
Investigating a postnatal treatment for Prader-Willi Syndrome: Switching on maternally imprinted genes by targeting the epigenetic repressor SMCHD1
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Tamara Beck
Variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) allele genotype of an SVA retrotransposon correlates with differential gene expression at the
MAPT
locus
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Alexander Fröhlich
Characterization of a novel Transcriptional Start Site in human myeloid cells that generates unique NRG1 isoforms
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Miguel MAB Berrocal
Glucocorticoid signalling via the glucocorticoid receptor regulates primary cilia length and structure in the fetal mouse renal tubule
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Jianshen JL Lao
The effect of longevity interventions on the aging epigenome
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Jack Harley
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