MWAC Symposium

Schedule Outline
(Speakers and titles below, abstracts to follow)

9:45 am Welcome Address by A/Prof Grainne Moran (Managing Director, MWAC)
10:00 am Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility (BMSF) Presentation
10:30 am Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility Presentation
11:00 am Morning Tea (provided)
11:30 am Biological Resources Imaging Laboratory (BRIL) Presentation
12:00 pm Solid State and Elemental Analysis Unit (SSEAU) Presentation
12:30 pm Lunch and Poster Session
1:30 pm Electron Microscope Unit (EMU) Presentations
2:00 pm Biomedical Imaging Facility (BMIF) Presentation
2:30 pm Afternoon Tea and Trade Display
3:00 pm Presentation of Awards
3:30 pm Closing Address by Mr Christopher Brownlee (Chair, MWAC Outreach Group)

Speakers and Presentation Titles

BMSF Presentation
Speaker: Sibasish Dolai, School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW Australia
Title: Global Phosphotyrosine Profiling to Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets in High-Risk Pediatric Leukemia

NMR Presentation
Speaker: Alpesh Patel, School of Chemistry, UNSW Australia
Title: Subtleties of New Kinese Inhibitors: F-Balanols

BRIL Presentation
Speaker: Luke Jones, Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, UNSW Australia
Title: In Vivo Imaging of Patient-Derived Paediatric ALL Xenografts to Improve Evaluation of Drug Efficacy

SSEAU Presentation
Speaker: Sabrina Beckmann, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, UNSW Australia
Title: A Novel Shortcircuit in Nature: Neutral Red Crystals Rewire Energy Towards a Burst in Methane

EMU Presentation (1 of 2)
Speaker: Jae Yun, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia
Title: On the Grain Growth and Crystallographic Orientation of Si Films on Glass Crystallised by Line Focus Diode Laser

EMU Presentation (2 of 2)
Speaker: Jialiang Huang, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia
Title: Micro-Structural Defects in Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells on Glass by Solid-Phase Crystallisation and Laser-Induced Liquid-Phase Crystallisation

BMIF Presentation
Speaker: Alex Ma, Centre for Vascular Research, UNSW Australia
Title: A FRET-based Membrane Charge Sensor and Modulation of Plama Membrane Lipid Mobility by Plasma Membrane Protein Islands