8th Garvan Signalling Symposium
Date: Monday 31st of October and Tuesday 1st of November 2016
Venue: The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney
Registration – Abstract submission to 15th of September 2016
The Garvan International Signalling Symposium is a premier meeting focused on the mechanisms of signal transduction. It began as a small meeting organised by Prof. Roger Daly around the visit of Prof. Axel Ullrich to the Garvan Institute in 2001. Since then, ‘Signalling Meetings’ have been held every 2-3 years and the meeting has grown into one of the Garvan Institute’s premiere scientific events. This boutique symposium highlights cutting-edge developments from the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world.
The Garvan International Signalling Symposium is a premier meeting focused on the mechanisms of signal transduction. It began as a small meeting organised by Prof. Roger Daly around the visit of Prof. Axel Ullrich to the Garvan Institute in 2001. Since then, ‘Signalling Meetings’ have been held every 2-3 years and the meeting has grown into one of the Garvan Institute’s premiere scientific events. This boutique symposium highlights cutting-edge developments from the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world.
We welcome scientists at all levels, including students, post-docs, research staff and senior lab heads. The intimate nature of the meeting and enjoyable social functions promotes a collegial atmosphere and excellent networking opportunities. A poster session will be held on the Monday afternoon with generous prizes. Slots have been reserved for short (15 minutes) talks to be selected from submitted abstracts.
The meeting is held at the Garvan Institute in the glamorous Darlinghurst region of Sydney, close to the city, Oxford Street, King’s Cross and the harbour.
This years exciting program features state-of-the-art technologies to investigate a wide range of diseases including cancer, immunology, neuroscience and metabolic disorders. Special sessions focus on in vivo/intravital signalling, proteomics, control of gene regulation and the structural basis of signalling.
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Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Klaus M Hahn
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dr. Hahn’s laboratory develops new means to visualize and control protein activity in vivo, and uses them to study the role of signaling dynamics in immune cell decision making. His laboratory has produced broadly applicable approaches to fluorescent biosensors that report conformational changes of endogenous proteins, fluorescent dyes to visualize protein activity in vivo, and protein analogs that can be controlled by light or small molecules. Current biological studies focus on phagocytosis, platelet production and metastasis.
Dr. Hahn studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, where he received his Ph.D in Organic Chemistry. He was a postdoc at the Center for Fluorescence Research at Carnegie Mellon University, became an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute, and then moved to UNC-Chapel Hill, where he is the Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the UNC-Olympus Imaging Center. Dr. Hahn is a recipient of an NIH Transformative Grant, the NIH’s James Shannon Director’s Award, and is a fellow of the AAAS. His lab’s work on biosensors was named one of the “10 Breakthroughs of the Decade” by Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
Owen J Sansom
The Beatson Institute, Scotland
Owen Sansom is interim director of the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow. Owen gained his PhD in 2001 working on in vivo models of apoptosis in cancer. Since then, he has been instrumental in determining the molecular hallmarks of colorectal cancer (CRC), including showing the roles of the tumour suppressor protein APC and the WNT signalling pathway and the involvement of intestinal stem cells in tumourigenesis. In 2005, Owen established his own laboratory at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, where he became Deputy Director in 2010. The Sansom laboratory uses in vivo models and 3D in vitro models to recapitulate CRC and pancreatic cancer to investigate the molecular mechanisms underpinning tumourigenesis and to identify novel drug targets. In 2007 Owen won the BACR/AstraZeneca Young Scientist Frank Rose Award and in 2012 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was awarded the Cancer Research UK Future Leaders in Cancer Research prize.
International Speakers
Eric O’Neill
University of Oxford, UK
Eric O’Neill is a Senior Group Leader and Associate Professor at the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology. After completing a Ph.D. at the University of Umeå, Sweden he was a post-doc at the University of Oxford. Subsequently, he was awarded a Marie Curie research fellowship and completed a 5-year post-doctoral position investigating oncogenic and tumour suppressor signalling at the CRUK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow. He is a member of the Association for Radiation Research and an examiner for the Royal College of Radiologists. He has also been on the organising committee for several international conferences.
Peter R Shepherd
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Shepherd gained a PhD in Chemistry from Massey University in New Zealand before post doctoral fellowships at Harvard University and Cambridge University. Following faculty positions at University College London, he moved back to Auckland University in 2004 where he is currently deputy director at the Maurice Wilkins Centre, a Centre of Research Excellence. His work focusses on understanding how defects in cell signalling pathways contribute to the development of type-2 diabetes and cancer, particularly focussing on the PI 3-kinase and beta-catenin pathways. His lab also has a strong translational research focus in the form of several ongoing in house drug discovery projects.
Tilman Brummer
University of Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Tilman Brummer is currently an independent group leader at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research (IMMZ) at the Albert-Ludwigs University (ALU) in Freiburg, Germany. He finished his studies in Biology with a diploma at the ALU followed by a PhD thesis on B lymphocyte signalling with Prof. Michael Reth at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics. In 2003, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Roger J. Daly at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2008, he returned to the newly established Centre of Biological Systems Analysis (ZBSA) at the ALU to establish his independent laboratory funded by the Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) before moving to the IMMZ in 2012. He is a principal investigator within the Collaborative Research Centre 850 “Control of Cell Motility in Morphogenesis, Cancer Invasion and Metastasis”, the “Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine” and the “Centre for Biological Signalling Studies” BIOSS. Recently, he has been awarded a prestigious Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG.
The Brummer laboratory is interested in the organisation of intracellular signalling pathways and how their intricate control becomes disturbed in human cancer. The laboratory is particularly interested in understanding the regulation of the BRAF and GAB2 oncoproteins and how they contribute to metastasis and drug resistance in solid tumours and leukaemia.
Jennifer Morton
The Beatson Institute, Scotland
Jen Morton is a joint leader of the pancreatic cancer research team at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute. Her research focuses mainly on: (a) Investigating the importance of mutations found in human pancreatic tumours using mouse models, (b) Profiling different genetic subsets of pancreatic cancer to better understand the disease and identify specific targets for therapy, and (c) performing preclinical trials of targeted therapies in clinically and genetically relevant pancreatic cancer mouse models.
Pat Caswell
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, UK
Patrick is based within the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Matrix Research at the University of Manchester. Patrick studied Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham, before undertaking a PhD at the University of Leicester and a postdoc in Jim Norman’s lab at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research. Patrick set up his lab in 2010, focussing on how cell-matrix interactions through integrins generate signals that control key cellular processes such as cell migration, differentiation and survival. The lab is specifically interested in vesicular trafficking, and has recently shown that endocytic trafficking of integrins and co-cargo receptors controls the spatial activation of RhoGTPases to modulate the actin cytoskeleton in invasive cancer cells.
Vinay Tergaonkar
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
Vinay Tergaonkar obtained his Ph.D. (2001), from National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. During his graduate studies he was awarded an international cancer society (UICC) fellowship for collaborative research at Tufts University, Boston, USA. He has been a fellow (2001-2004) and a special fellow (2004-present) of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America and conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. He joined the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in late 2005 as Principal Investigator and became a Senior Principal Investigator in 2010 and Research Director in 2015. He is also a Professor at School of Medicine at National University of Singapore. He has been invited to speak at various international venues and meetings such as the Barossa and Hunter valley meetings in Australia, Genes and Cancer meeting in UK, The Argentine Pharmacological society meeting in Buenos Aires, Aichi and Japanese Cancer Society meetings in Japan and the Keystone Symposia. He serves on Editorial Boards of 1) Molecular and Cellular Biology (American Society for Molecular Biology) 2) Biochemical Journal (Portland Press) 3) Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology (Elsevier Press), 4) BMC Research Notes (Biomed Central) and 5) Telomeres and Telomerase. He has received international recognition for his work including the British council development award (2014) and the 2015 Premiers’ fellowship from Government of South Australia.
Daniel Schramek
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
Daniel Schramek is a Principal Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Molecular biology from the University of Vienna and undertook his master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Roger Daly at the Garvan Institute in Sydney. He undertook his PhD work under the supervision of Prof. Josef Penninger at IMBA in Vienna, followed by postdoctoral studies with Prof. Elaine Fuchs at the Rockefeller University in New York. In 2015, Dr. Schramek was recruited to the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, where he holds an endowed ‘Kierans & Janigan’ Cancer Research Chair as well as a tier 2 Canadian Research Chair in Functional Cancer Genomics. Dr. Schramek was awarded a prestigious HFSP Career Development Award, the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation as well as a CIHR Foundation grant.
His lab focuses on functional cancer genomics and has generated various in vivo CRISPR-gene editing methodologies to screen for novel tumor suppressors, cancer vulnerabilities as well as therapy resistance genes in various mouse models of human cancers. Through this program, Dr. Schramek specifically aims to identify molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate epithelial tissue growth in adult homeostasis, cancer and cancer-associated inflammation.
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