Life science conferences in Lorne next February

Late every summer the Mantra Erskine Beach Resort in Lorne hosts a series of life science conferences that attract a host of national and international speakers and delegates. The beachfront location on Victoria’s famous Great Ocean Road and the 12 acres of landscaped gardens that surround the resort, make this the ideal setting for scientists and their families to combine world-class conferences with a holiday by the sea.

17th Lorne Proteomics Symposium

2-5 February 2012

Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne

Registration and more information: www. www.australasianproteomics.org

Proteomics is the large-scale study of the protein complement of a living organism. The Australasian Proteomics Society (APS) aims to promote and facilitate proteomics research and related topics in Australia and New Zealand. The APS membership is drawn from academic, industry and government laboratories. To assist in the dissemination of knowledge in the field, the APS has been organising an annual meeting in Lorne since 1996.

At this year’s meeting, poster presenters will have the chance to introduce themselves and seminal points of their presentations in 5-minute ‘Lightning Talks’.

Tony Pawson	Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mt. Sinai Hospital, Canada
Chris Overall	University of British Columbia, Centre for Blood Research, Canada
Willi Jahnen-  Dechent	Department of Biomedical Engineering Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University,  Germany
Kazuki Saito	Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Japan
Catherine  Costello	Mass Spectrometry Resource Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Benjamin  Cravatt	Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Philippe  Bastiaens	Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
Benjamin Neel	Division of Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
John Mattick	Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Bruce Kemp	St Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research, Vic
Martin Lackman	Monash University, Vic
Ben Schultz	University of Queensland, Qld
Robert Moritz	Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA
Gregory Staples	Agilent Laboratories, USA
Mark von Itzstein	Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Qld
Theodore Sana	Agilent Technologies, USA

37th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function Conference

5-9 February 2012

Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne

Registration and more information: www.lorneproteins.org

Leading-edge protein science, irrespective of its focus, will be at the forefront of this year’s Protein Structure and Function Conference. The program themes for 2012 will include:

• Emerging technologies
• How proteins fold and misfold
• Deadly viruses
• Hot topics in NMR
• Peptides - why size matters
• Motor proteins
• Phosphatases and signalling

Speakers at the 2012 Protein Structure and Function Conference

Ad Bax	National Institutes of Health, USA
Andrew P Carter	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Jane Clarke	University of Cambridge, UK
David S Eisenberg	University of California Los Angeles, USA
Samuel Gellman	University of Wisconsin, USA
Lila Gierasch	University of Massachusetts, USA
Anne Houdusse	Institut Curie, France
Sophie Jackson	University of Cambridge, UK
Rick Lewis	Newcastle University, UK
Brian Matthews	University of Oregon, USA
Stephen Pak	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Sheena Radford	University of Leeds, UK
Carol Robinson	Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, UK
Charles Sanders	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA
Shirish Shenolikar	Duke University Medical Center, USA
Michael F Summers	University of Maryland, USA
Nick Tonks	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Jake Baum	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Vic
John Carver	The University of Adelaide, SA
Alexander Khromykh	The University of Queensland, Qld
Bostjan Kobe	University of Queensland, Qld
Gottfried Otting	Australian National University, ACT
Nicole Verrills	The University of Newcastle, NSW

24th Lorne Cancer Conference

9–11 February 2012

Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne

Registration and further information: www.lornecancer.org

Fitting neatly between the Lorne Protein and Genome Meetings, the Lorne Cancer Conference has a strong international and national scientific content. Delegates from many of the major hospitals, universities, research institutes and biotechnology companies within Australia will be attending.

The wide-ranging program will be highlighted by two plenary presentations: one by George D Demetri who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and also a Director at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology and the other by the Professor of Pathology at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Center for Translational Research in the Molecular Genetics of Cancer and co-leader of the Cell Cycling and Signaling Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center - Thea Tlsty.

International speakers at the 2012 Cancer Conference

Alan Ashworth	Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Laura D Attardi	Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
William C Hahn	Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Michael Hemann	Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, USA
Hiroyuki Mano	Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Heidi Phillips	Genentech, Inc, USA
Geoffrey M Wahl	Salk Institute, USA

33rd Annual Lorne Genome Conference 2012

12-14 February 2012

Mantra Erskine Resort, Lorne

Registration and more information: www.genome-conf.net.au

Molecular genetics will be studied, discussed and considered at the Genome Conference. Various aspects of genome organisation, gene expression and gene technology extending to include many other disciplines such as molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry, development biology and more will be under the spotlight.

The first Australian Genome Conference was held in 1979 in South Australia at Martindale Hall (the site of the infamous Picnic at Hanging Rock). The meeting was organised by Julian Wells and attended by about 35 people. In the following years the meetings were held in the Eden/Bega, region of southern NSW, generally at camping grounds. These relaxed and informal meetings are remembered fondly, with butchers paper and marker pens for presentations, and the occasional interruption of scientific sessions to chase a passing school of fish.

The meetings then moved to Lorne, initially in a joint conference with Lorne Proteins, again with most participants camping in tents or on the beach. Only twice since then has the meeting been held away from Lorne - in 1999 when the Human Genetics Organisation held its annual conference in Brisbane and Lorne Genome was not held and in 2005 when the conference was held on Phillip Island due to renovations of the Erskine resort.

International speakers at the 2012 Genome Conference

Asifa Akhtar	Max Plank Institute, Germany	Chromatin regulation and epigenetic mechanisms
Siobhan  Brady	University of California - Davis	Systems biology of transcriptional control in plant  development
Xuemei Chen	University of California - Riverside	Small RNAs in plant development
Stephen  Cohen	Institute of Molecular and Cell  Biology, Singapore	miRNAs and developmental biology
Patrick  Cramer	University of Munich, Germany	Gene transcription and gene regulation
Job Dekker	University of Massachusetts, USA	Spatial organisation of genomes
Joe Heitman	Duke University, USA	Evolution and molecular basis of microbial  pathogenesis
Nevan  Krogan	University of California - San  Francisco, USA	tba
Reinhard  Lührmann	Göttingen, Germany	tba
Jian Jun Liu	The Genome Institute of  Singapore	tba
Karolin  Luger	Colarado State University, USA	Regulation of chromatin structure and function
Huck Hui Ng	The Genome Institute of  Singapore	Genome-wide analysis in stem cells
Robert  Roeder	Rockefeller University, USA	Transcriptional control
Marain  Walhout	University of Massachusetts, USA	Systems biology of gene regulatory networks
Andy  Futreal	Sanger Institute, UK	Cancer genomics
Peter Fraser	Babraham Institute, UK	tba