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Conference Program

Outline of Program Schedule for 2007 Conference

Program current as of September 14th 2007 (may be subject to minor change).

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Sunday 21 October

12:00PM - 5:00PM Conference Registration
5:00PM - 6:00PM Opening Session
Chair: Ian Smith & John Wade
  Brian Chait: Proteomic Approaches for Analyzing Complex Biological Machines    abs#001
6:00PM - 7:00PM Welcome Reception

Monday 22 October

7:00AM - 8:30AM Poster Preview
  Delegates are welcome to browse through the trade hall to observe the posters.
8:30AM - 10:25AM Protein Misfolding & Disease
Chair: Kevin Barnham & Yoshiaki Kiso
  Colin Masters: Alzheimer's disease: Aβ-amyloid as the principal molecular and therapeutic diagnostic target.    abs#002
  Jeffery Kelly: Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrophobic Effect Thermodynamic Linkage Creates Protein Folding Hotspots   abs#003
  Sheena Radford: Exploring Protein Folding Landscapes: from Ensembles to Single Molecule Methods    abs#004
  Stephen Bottomley: The Mechanism of Polyglutamine Protein Aggregation - A story with a twist in its tail.    abs#005
10:30AM - 11:00AM Morning Tea
11:00AM - 1:00PM Peptidomimetics & Drug Design
Chair: Patrick Perlmutter & Dirk Tourwe
  Garland Marshall: Peptidomimetics of Helical Protein Surfaces: The Devil's in the Details    abs#006
  Peter Gluckman: TBA    abs#007
  Dawei Ma: Studies on the Smac mimetics and SARS 3CL protease inhibitors    abs#009
  William Lubell: Aza-Amino Acid Scanning To Explore Conformation-Biological Activity Relationships    abs#008
1:00PM - 3:30PM Poster Session A & Lunch
  Naoko Abe: O-Acyl isopeptide method for peptide synthesis: Application of O-acyl isodipeptide units to the synthesis of bioactive peptides    abs#101
  Marina Ali: Direct labeling of bioactive molecules with technetium to evaluate their biodistribution in arthritic joints by imaging    abs#102
  Dominique Bagnard: Peptidic inhibition of the transmembrane domain of Neuropilin-1 inhibits glioma growth in vivo    abs#103
  Paul Barrett: The Measurement of Structural Aspects of Melittin and Prion Peptide Interactions with Characterised Supported Lipid Bilayers.    abs#104
  Sharon Bishop-Hurley: Combinatorially selected phage-displayed peptides for the control of Campylobacter jejuni in chickens    abs#105
  Carine Bourguet: Exploring the relationship between turn geometry and allosteric antagonism of peptide mimic ligands for a prostaglandin receptor    abs#106
  Gregory Bourne: Peptidomimetics of helical protein surfaces targeting the E. coli CheY response regulator.    abs#107
  Jens Buchardt: Transglutaminase mediated selective PEGylation of human growth hormone    abs#108
  Yan Chen: Effect of formulation factors on incorporation of the hydrophilic peptide dalargin into PLGA and mPEG-PLGA nanoparticles    abs#109
  Daniel Coles: The Characterisation of Novel Dendritic Carriers with DNA by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry    abs#110
  Norelle Daly: Sunflower trypsin inhibitor: A unique scaffold in drug design    abs#111
  Aline Dantas de Araujo: Directed Folding of Toxins Using Selenocysteine    abs#112
  Yoshio Doi: Incorporation of large nonnatural amino acids into protein by translation with EF-Tu mutants    abs#113
  Ann Du: Ligand-Supported Purification of the Urotensin-II Receptor: Towards a General Method for GPCR Purification    abs#114
  Samir EL Andaloussi: Applications of cell-penetrating peptides in gene regulation    abs#115
  Alysha Elliott: Evolution & insecticidal activity of circular peptides    abs#116
  Christian Feckler: Efficient fractionation of mitochondria and plasma-membrane proteins    abs#117
  Jordan Fletcher: Microwave-assisted synthesis & biological characterisation of T-cell determinants bearing N-Methylated amides    abs#118
  Shi Fu: A novel preparation for inositol trisphosphates    abs#119
  Ian Gibbins: Peptides increase neuronal excitability via convergent G-protein coupled receptor signalling pathways that inhibit potassium channels   abs#120
  Jean-Francois Hernandez: Solid phase synthesis of dipeptides and dipeptidomimetics substrate-based NOS inhibitors through a side-chain anchoring approach    abs#121
  Jan Hlavácek: Oostatic peptides in the flesh fly Neobellieria bullata: Synthesis, distribution and degradation    abs#122
  Ralf Hoffmann: Mapping of phosphorylation dependent monoclonal antibodies in immunoblots using human tau-constructs synthesized by native chemical ligation    abs#123
  John Huynh: Is helix VIII of G protein-coupled receptors a lipid-activated signalling sensor?    abs#124
  Reito Ikeda: Loss of Sweetness of Monatin with Lactamization    abs#125
  Nui Ito: A novel application of the isopeptide method to synthesize difficult sequence-containing peptide    abs#126
  Yuji Ito: Binding peptides specific to low pH-induced conformer of human IgG-Fc: application for conformational analysis and affinity purification    abs#127
  Henrik Johansson: Characterization of a novel cytotoxic cell-penetrating peptide derived from p14ARF protein    abs#128
  Bishnu Joshi: Design and Synthesis of New Peptide Sensor for Detection of Zn2+ based on Modular Approach    abs#129
  John Juliano: Back to BACE-ics - Peptidomimetic inhibitor design, assaying strategies & expression of β-Secretase    abs#130
  JiEun Jung: Polyubiquitin conjugates with lysine-specific linkage: Synthesis and structural characterization using high resolution mass spectrometry    abs#131
  Hirochika Kawakami: Efficient solid-phase synthesis of labeled β-structured peptides used for peptide arrays    abs#132
  Sung Kim: Synthesis of pseudopeptides containing reduced amide bonds corresponding to indolicidin and their biological activities    abs#133
  Chuang Fong Kong: Robust enrichment of phosphpeptides from serum using titania coated magnetic beads for rapid profiling of biomarkers by mass spectrometry    abs#134
  Tzong-Hsien (John) Lee: Reversed Phase and Immobilised Phospholipid Chromatographic Separation of Mouse Liver Microsomal Proteins for Membrane Proteome Analysis    abs#135
  Joohee Lee: γ3 -PNA : RNA Specific Binding Peptide Nucleic Acid    abs#136
  Jisoo Lim: 14-Helical β3-Peptide Stabilized by Cation-π Interaction    abs#137
  Lihong Liu: Cholesterol-Terminated PEG-TAT Micelle as Novel Carrier for Ciprofloxacin Delivery Targeted to Blood-Brain Barrier    abs#138
  Maria Luisa Mangoni: LPS (Endotoxin) is a Key Molecule in the Synergistic Effect of Temporins on Gram-Negative Bacteria    abs#139
  Lisandra (Lisa) Martin: Specific and selective peptide-membrane interactions revealed by QCM & AFM    abs#140
  Danny Mok: Targeting both intracellular and extracellular protein interactions with Phylomer® peptides    abs#141
  Bethny Morrissey: Diving into Domains - Antigenic Peptide Identification using a Mass Spectrometry Based Immunoassay    abs#142
  Markus Muttenthaler: Directed folding of α-Conotoxins using selenocysteine    abs#143
  Natalia Nalivaeva: Study of the effects of regulatory peptides on expression of amyloid-degrading enzymes    abs#144
  Jin-Mi Noh: Kojic acid-Tripeptide Amides and Ascorbic acid-Tripeptide Amides as a New Tyrosinase Inhibitor    abs#145
  Yasuhiko Ohtsuka: Synthesis of HC-toxin Hydroxamic Acid Analogs and Their Inhibitory Activity toward Histone Deacetylases    abs#146
  Akira Otaka: Development of amino acid derivative with amide cleavage ability and its use for the design of shuttle peptides    abs#147
  Yoonkyung Park: Antimicrobial mechanism of an antimicrobial peptide, Pseudin-2, derived from the skin of the paradoxical frog in various membrane lipid compositions    abs#148
  Leonard Pattenden: Activation of the Angiotensin I G Protein-Coupled Receptor Involves the Plasma Membrane and Calmodulin as an Early Event of Signal Transduction.    abs#149
  Julian Phillips: High-Throughput, Highly Sensitive and Selective Targeted Quantitative Protein Analysis Using High Resolution Selected Reaction Monitoring Assays on a Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer    abs#150
  Michael Przybylski: CREDEX-MS: Molecular determination of carbohydrate recognition structures in proteins by proteolytic excision- mass spectrometry    abs#151
  Peter Quaedflieg: The use of Peptide Deformylase in industrial peptide synthesis    abs#152
  Helena Safavi-Hemami: Profiling and Functional Studies of Venom Isolated from Conus novaehollandiae    abs#153
  Christina Schroeder: Structure and activity of neuronally selective mu-conotoxins from Conus striatus    abs#154
  Jimmy Sejberg: Bicyclic acidic amino acids as mimetics of Glu or Asp    abs#155
  Edith Staes: Does the acylation influence the interaction of ghrelin with lipid membranes?    abs#156
  David Steer: Comparison of CID and ETD in the sequencing and identification of Neuropeptides.    abs#157
  Vommina Sureshbabu: Total synthesis of Cyclosporin-O    abs#158
  Vommina Sureshbabu: Synthesis of tetrazole analogues of amino acids: The Fmoc approach    abs#159
  Johan Svenson: Insights into the Protein Binding of Short Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides    abs#160
  Hirokazu Tamamura: Identification of Sequential Motifs Relevant to Inhibitory Activity against HIV Integrase    abs#161
  Masakazu Tanaka: Molecular design for chiral cyclic α,α -disubstituted amino acids and conformational study of their peptides    abs#162
  Dirk Tourwe: Conformational constraints provide new, potent and selective Angiotensin-IV analogs.    abs#163
  Nicole van der Weerden: Understanding the Mechanism of Action of a Floral Defensin    abs#164
  Jackie Wilce: The Intracellular and Nuclear-targeted Delivery of an Anti-androgen Drug by Carrier Peptides.    abs#165
  Nicholas Williamson: Assessing the Proportion and Diversity of Post-Translationally Modified Peptides in the Immunopeptidome    abs#166
  Yao-Wen Wu: Quantitative Analysis of the Interaction of Prenylated Rab GTPase with REP and GDI Using Semi-synthetic Fluorescent Sensor    abs#167
  Miyuki Yamaguchi: Direct detection of non-covalent complexes of oligo(tyrosine sulfate)s with synthetic heparin-binding peptides by MALDI-TOF-MS    abs#168
  Yuanzhong Yang: Field-amplified sample injection: A new high sensitivity method for the analysis of peptides by capillary electrophoresis - mass spectrometry    abs#169
  Shee Yong: Improving mass spectrometry analysis in proteomics - Peptide derivatization stratagies    abs#170
  Lunch for all delegates will be served at the same time in the trade area.
3:30PM - 5:30PM New Developments in Peptide Drug Delivery
Chair: Istvan Toth and Hisakazu Mihara
  Vladimir Torchilin: Cell penetrating peptide-modified pharmaceutical nanocarriers for intracellular drug and gene delivery    abs#010
  Pavla Simerska: Liposaccharides in Peptide Vaccine Delivery    abs#011
  Kathryn Woodburn: Hematide™ is Immunologically Distinct from Erythropoietin and Corrects Anemia in a Rat Pure Red Cell Aplasia Model    abs#012
  Yoram Schecter: New Technologies to Prolong Life-Time of Peptide and Protein Drugs In vivo    abs#013
  William Banks: Delivery of Peptides to the Brain: Emphasis on Therapeutic Development    abs#014
3:30PM - 5:30PM Chemical Peptide Synthesis: Innovations & Applications
Chair: John Wade and Saburo Aimoto
  Yuji Nishiuchi: Chloroform-Phenol Mixed Solvent Essential for Segment Condensation Reaction Performed in Solution or on a Solid Support    abs#015
  Andrea Robinson: Applying homogeneous catalysis to the synthesis of peptides    abs#016
  Jonathan Collins: New Developments in Microwave Assisted Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis    abs#017
  Yoon-Sik Lee: Ladder-Type One-Bead One-Compound (OBOC) Peptide Library on HiCore Resin for the Screening of Kinase Substrates   abs#018
  James Tam: Quaternary Protein Mimetic    abs#019
3:30PM - 5:30PM Peptidomics: Towards Therapeutics
Chair: Tony Purcell and Malcolm Buckle
  William Hildebrand: Peptide Epitopes that Distinguish Virus-Infected and Cancerous Cells    abs#020
  Matthias Pelzing: Sequence Characterization of Intact Proteins by Consecutive Ion/Ion Reactions of ETD and PTR     abs#021
  Michael Przybylski: New molecular approaches for immuno-therapy and -diagnosis of alzhemer's disease based on epitope-specific serum anti-βamyloid autoantibodies    abs#022
  Hong Gi Kim: Peptidomic Analysis of Rat Brain Exposed to Cold and Restraint Stress: Identification of a Novel Neuropeptide Derived from Microtubule-associated Protein 2    abs#023
  Christie Hunter: Novel Strategy Involving Peptide MRM-based Assays and Chemistry for Targeted Quantitation of Biomarkers in Plasma    abs#024
5:30PM - 6:30PM Happy Hour, Trade & Posters

Tuesday 23 October

7:00AM - 8:30AM Poster Preview
  Delegates are welcome to browse through the trade hall to observe the posters.
8:30AM - 10:30AM Peptides-to-Clinic
Chair: Richard Houghten and Geoff Frances
  Pierre De Meyts: Structure, function and evolution of ligands and receptors of the insulin peptide family    abs#025
  Anna Papini: An innovative "chemical reverse approach" for autoimmune diseases diagnosis: a consistent strategy to include aberrant post-translational modifications    abs#026
  Les Miranda: Design, Synthesis, and Biological Activity of GLP-1 Peptide Agonists    abs#027
  Anthony Turner: Evolution of angiotensin converting enzymes and implications for vasoactive peptide metabolism    abs#028
  Waleed Danho: Opportunities and Challenges of Developing Peptide Drugs in the Pharmaceutical Industry    abs#029
10:30AM - 11:00AM Morning Tea
11:00AM - 1:00PM Clinical Proteomics
Chair: Ian Smith and Dick Wettenhall
  Ralph Bradshaw: Post-Translational modifications: Identifying the wheat and sorting the chaff    abs#030
  William Hancock: The Challenge of Deep Analysis of the Plasma Proteome for Clinical Proteomics    abs#031
  Ed Nice: Faecal Proteomics    abs#032
  James Landridge: What can peptide shape tell us? The application of ion mobility coupled with time-of -flight mass spectrometry for detailed peptide structural studies    abs#033
  Alan Sawyer: The Monash Antibody Technologies Facility: A high throughput monoclonal antibody production platform for phospho-kinomics and a custom service for Australian and international scientists and companies    abs#034
1:00PM - 3:30PM Poster Session B & Lunch
  Tomoyasu AIZAWA: A novel expression system for recombinant peptide as inclusion body    abs#201
  Kalyana Bharati Akondi: Synthesis and characterisation of novel alpha-conotoxin, LeD2    abs#202
  Asif Alam: Rapid identification of protein variants with mass spectrometry    abs#203
  Syahir Amir: Highly sensitive anomalous relfection of gold applicable for protein detection    abs#204
  Marielle Anger-Leroy: Open Platform for Real-Time Biomolecular Interactions in Array Format without Labelling    abs#205
  Martina Baumann: Understanding self-assembled amphiphilic peptide supramolecular structures from primary sequence helix propensity.    abs#206
  Heather Benson: Formulation development of chitosan-based nanoparticles for delivery of a hydrophilic hexapeptide    abs#207
  Scott Bringans: Proteomic Analysis of the Venom of Heterometrus longimanus (Asian Black Scorpion)    abs#208
  Malcolm Buckle: Surface Plasmon Resonance Imagery (SPRi) and the development of novel General Liquid Interface Specific Surfaces (GLISS) for peptide biochips    abs#209
  Yoshiro Chuman: Identification of Alternative Splicing Variants of PPM1 Protein Phosphatase PPM1D    abs#210
  Cecile Cros: Intranasal delivery of disaccharide modified CNS active peptides    abs#211
  André de Roos: Proteolytically derived Bio-active peptides in food applications    abs#212
  Nicholas Ede: Mining for Treasures: Systematic Profiling of 8-, 9-, 10-, and 11-mer HLA-B*0702-restricted CD8+ T cell epitopes from the Influenza A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (H1N1) Virus Hemagglutinin with Potential Application in Vaccine Development    abs#213
  Ronald Frank: High-density cellulose-bound peptide arrays for systematic studies of peptide-protein interactions    abs#214
  Christian Gruber: Enzymatic folding of cystine knot defence peptides    abs#215
  Achiel Haemers: Irreversible uPA inhibitors with potent anti-metastatic properties    abs#216
  Xiang Han: Synthesis of RGD Mimetic Peptides with Heterocyclic Residues    abs#217
  Tom Hennessy: Profiling embryonic developmental stages of zebrafish (danio rerio)    abs#218
  Yuji Hidaka: Recognition of the N-Terminal Histone H2A and H3 Peptides by Peptidylarginine Deiminase V    abs#219
  Robert Hodges: Stability Control Sites in Two-stranded α-Helical Coiled-coils    abs#220
  Peter Hoffmann: Isotope Coded Protein Labelling (ICPL) in combination with Liquid Chromatography MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry analysis (LC-MALDI) used for the quantification of complex protein mixtures.    abs#221
  Hironobu Hojo: Synthesis of glycopeptide dendrimer by the thioester method    abs#222
  Jun Ishibashi: N-terminal deamidation of secreted proteins    abs#223
  Takashi Iwasaki: Antibacterial and anticancer activity of diastereomeric 9-mer peptides derived from beetle defensins    abs#224
  Peter Jackson: Multidimensional Liquid Chromatography of Proteins employing Monolithic WAX and RP Columns    abs#225
  Rebecca Jackway: The Formation of the Chemical Messenger Nitric Oxide is Inhibited by the Dahlein 5.6/Calmodulin Complex    abs#226
  Bishnu Joshi: Application of Microwave Irradiation to the Synthesis of Pseudopeptides Containing Ester Bond    abs#227
  Woo Ram Jung: Proteomic analysis of H19-7 cells induced by tetra-sialogangliosides GQ1b    abs#228
  Maria Katsara: T cell receptor altered peptide ligands of Myelin Basic Protein and Proteolipid Protein (Linear and Cyclic) can modulate immune responses in SJL/J mice: Bioactive peptides for Multiple Sclerosis.    abs#229
  Koichi Kawasaki: A Tat-related transporter peptide for carrying the adenovirus vector into cells    abs#230
  Hong Gi Kim: Decreased Hippocampal Cholinergic Neurostimulating Peptide Precursor Protein associated with Stress Exposure in Rat Brain by Proteomic Analysis    abs#231
  Joung Kim: Design and synthesis of pseudopeptide inhibitors for aggregation and fibril formation of Amyloid β protein    abs#232
  Hiroyuki Konno: Total Syntheses of Miraziridine A and Its Analogues    abs#233
  Chan Lee: New cyclic depsipeptides, enniatin H, I and MK 1688 co-produced with beauvercin by Fusarium oxysporum KFCC11363P     abs#234
  KI JUNG LIM: Mechanism of anticancer activity of histonin, a histone H2A-derived peptide    abs#235
  Feng Lin: Regioselective disulfide solid phase synthesis of mouse relaxin    abs#236
  Ya-Qiu Long: α-Helix Stabilized Peptides via an all Hydrocarbon-staple Conferring an Improved Inhibitory Activity against 3'-Processing of HIV-1 Integrase    abs#237
  Nadia Milech: Phylomers: using a new class of natural peptides to target intracellular and extracellular proteins    abs#238
  Naoto Minamino: Peptidomic analysis for identification of endogenous peptides and precursor processing profile    abs#239
  Hector Montiel: Computer-based screening of functional conformers of proteins    abs#240
  Maarja Mäe: Breast tumor homing cell-penetrating peptide chimera targeted delivery in vitro and in vivo.    abs#241
  Sarika Namjoshi: Enhanced transdermal delivery of a dipeptide by Dermaportation    abs#242
  Kiyoshi Nokihara: Construction of a Mini-library and Structure-functional studies of Maxadilan, a non-mammalian potent vasodilatory peptide, which interacts with the PAC-1 receptor    abs#243
  HanBin Oh: ESI-MS approach for screening the Zn(II)-binding peptides    abs#244
  MASAKI OKUMURA: Role of pro-leader sequence of de novo designed disulfide hybrid peptides    abs#245
  Florian Opperer: N-Methylation of MT-II Backbone Amide Bonds leads to Melanocortin Receptor Selectivity    abs#246
  Yoonkyung Park: Trichogin GA IV and its analogues: Mode of Action and Antibiotic Activity against Gram-Positive and MRSA Strains    abs#247
  Patrick Perlmutter: Active site specificity of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 using beta-amino acid substrate analogs.    abs#248
  Julian Phillips: Liquid Chromatography Optimization for Glycopeptide Analysis by Electron Transfer Dissociation    abs#249
  Peter Quaedflieg: Low-cost industrial chemo-enzymatic synthesis of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical oligopeptides    abs#250
  Sri Ramarathinam: Mass spectral analysis of β-amino acid containing peptides    abs#251
  Denis Scanlon: Microwave Solid Phase Synthesis of Natriuretic Peptide Sequences Derived from the Venom of Exotic Snakes and Lizards    abs#253
  Fazel Shabanpoor: Development of a high throughput receptor binding assay using Time-Resolved Fluorescent Europium lanthanide for screening designed insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) for their receptor binding affinity.   abs#254
  JU RI SHIN: High-level expression of an antimicrobial peptide histonin as a natural form by multimerization and Furin-mediated cleavage    abs#255
  Izumi Shiraishi: Design of Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors with Chlamydocin Framework containing Various Imino Acids instead of Proline Residue    abs#256
  Jennifer Smith: Investigation into Australian scorpion and centipede venoms   abs#257
  Kerstin Steinert: Comparative analysis of membrane glycoproteins from cultured cells    abs#258
  Vommina Sureshbabu: The utility of N-Fmoc-Asp/Glu derived 5-oxozolidinones for side chain carboxyl group selective modifications    abs#259
  Gilda Tachedjian: Peptides That Modulate HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Dimerization and Inhibit Enzyme Function    abs#260
  Atsuhiko Taniguchi: Click peptide: Chemical Biology-oriented analogues of Alzheimer's amyloid β peptide 1-42    abs#261
  Philip Thompson: Azabicycloalkane-2-carboxylic acids as scaffolding residues in peptidomimetic design - NK2 antagonists as an example    abs#262
  Kellie Tuck: Synthesis of ω-Conotoxin Mimetics in the Development of Novel Analgesics    abs#263
  Satoshi Ueno: Mutant of Nematode Cecropin P4 Pro-piece, NP4P, Enhances Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides    abs#264
  Karel van wely: Histone binding to the "Death inducer obliterator" protein family    abs#265
  Hiroaki Yagi: Substrate Preference of p53-inducible Protein Phosphatase PPM1D    abs#266
  Yuri Yamazaki: Tubulin Photoaffinity Labeling Study with Biotin-Tagged Diketopiperazine-Based Anti-Microtubule Agents    abs#267
  Taku Yoshiya: Racemization-free segment condensation based on isopeptide method: Toward an efficient preparation of peptides/proteins on solid support    abs#268
  Alexander Zamyatnin: Fragmentomics of oligopeptides and proteins    abs#269
  suode zhang: Microwave assisted synthesis of N- protected amino acid ester    abs#270
  suode zhang: Simultaneous Post-Cysteine(Acm) Group Removal Quenching of Iodination and Isolation of Peptide by One Step Ether Precipitation    abs#271
  suode Zhang: Identification of the Receptor Binding Surface of Human Insulin-Like Peptide 3    abs#272
  Lunch for all delegates will be served at the same time in the trade area.
3:30PM - 5:40PM Toxins and targets: New Therapeutic and GMO Leads
Chair: Ray Norton and Kyung-Soo Hahm
  Glenn King: Surprises from spiders: orally active peptide toxins from the inventors of combinatorial peptide chemistry    abs#035
  Chunguang Wang: Purification and structural characterization of a D-amino acid containing conopeptide, marmophine, from Conus marmoreus    abs#036
  Grzegorz Bulaj: Development of Conus-Derived Therapeutics for Pain via Exogenomics and Peptide Engineering    abs#037
  Raymond Norton: Toxin Structures: Through the Looking Glass    abs#038
  Richard Lewis: Xen2174: a novel conopeptide NET inhibitor with analgesic potential    abs#039
3:30PM - 5:30PM Molecular Interactions - Exploring Affinity & Specificity
Chair: Jackie Wilce and Wally Thomas
  Stefan Ståhl: Affibody molecules for tumour targeting applications    abs#040
  William Gelb: Microcalorimetric Methods for Peptide Studies    abs#041
  Gideon Schreiber: New horizons in structure-function studies of protein-protein binding sites using high-throughput SPR    abs#042
  Jacqui Matthews: Structural linear binding motifs in LIM-binding proteins    abs#043
  Patrick Schaeffer: A New Kind of Protein-DNA Interaction in Termination of DNA Replication    abs#044
  Sarah Jones: Mitoparans: mitochondriotoxic cell penetrating peptides and novel inducers of apoptosis    abs#045
5:30PM - 6:30PM Happy Hour, Trade & Posters

Wednesday 24 October

8:30AM - 10:30AM Emerging Technologies for Studying Peptide Structure & Function
Chair: Mibel Aguilar and David Andreu
  Frances Separovic: Membrane interactions of antimicrobial peptides from Australian tree frogs.    abs#046
  Tzong-Hsien (John) Lee: Dynamic geometrical changes of antimicrobial peptides in membrane studied by molecular imaging and optical biosensors    abs#047
  Joseph Poduslo: Development of a Peptide-Based Contrast Agent for the Molecular Imaging of Alzheimer's Disease Amyloid Plaques Using High Field Strength Magnetic Resonance    abs#048
  Toshimasa Yamazaki: Structure and Function of the N-terminal Domains of SUMO Ligase Siz/PIAS Family    abs#049
  Hans-Henrik Kristensen: Plectasin - a new class of peptide antibiotics with potent activities against bacterial infections    abs#050
10:30AM - 11:30AM Morning Tea
11:00AM - 1:00PM New Concepts in Bioactive Peptide Design
Chair: David Craik and Claudio Toniolo
  Motoyoshi Nomizu: Cell Adhesive Peptides as a Powerful Tool for Cell Engineering    abs#051
  Johan Rosengren: Structural insights into the action of relaxin peptide hormones    abs#052
  Robert Millar: Ligand-induced-selective-signalling (LiSS) at the Gonadotropin-Releasing-Hormone (GnRH) receptor: delineation of ligand SAR and receptor conformation    abs#053
  Morten Meldal: Optical encoding: A general solution to problems in Split/Mix libraries.    abs#054
  Phillip Robinson: Peptide inhibitors of dynamin phosphorylation-dependent protein-protein interactions    abs#055
1:00PM - 6:30PM Free Afternoon

Thursday 25 October

7:00AM - 8:30AM Poster Preview
  Delegates are welcome to browse through the trade hall to observe the posters.
8:30AM - 10:30AM Peptidomics: Biomarker analysis and characterization
Chair: Jeff Gorman and Mike Hubbard
  Hidehito Mukai: Cryptides: Functional Cryptic Peptides Hidden in Protein Structures and Their Novel Signaling Mechanisms    abs#056
  Anthony Purcell: Post-Translationally modified peptides - New targets in autoimmune disease?    abs#057
  Rudolf Grimm: Latest advancements in HPLC-Chip/MS with applications to proteomics and glycomics research    abs#058
  Peter Hoffmann: Super para-magnetic micro particles with different surface modification and their use for the enrichment of peptide classes and their potential as Biomarker Discovery tool.    abs#059
  Naoto Minamino: Peptidomic identification of novel neuroendocrine regulatory peptide-1 and -2    abs#060
10:30AM - 11:00AM Morning Tea
11:00AM - 1:00PM Peptide & Protein Engineering
Chair: Paul Alewood & Bob Hodges
  Thomas Muir: Semisynthesis of Ubiquitylated Chromatin    abs#061
  Takehiko Wada: RNA Recognition and Recognition Control of α-Peptide Ribonucleic Acids Containing Arginine Residue by External Factor    abs#062
  Rob Liskamp: Peptides on selectively addressable synthetic scaffolds for mimicry of discontinuous epitopes in proteins: Towards synthetic vaccines and antibodies.    abs#063
  Jane Aldrich: Development of centrally acting peptide analogs: structure-transport studies and pharmacological evaluation of analogs of the opioid peptide dynorphin A    abs#064
  Yasuhiro Kajihara: Chemical synthesis of glycoproteins having human complex type oligosaccharide    abs#065
1:00PM - 3:30PM Poster Session C & Lunch
  Abu-Baker Abdel-Aal: The importance of epitope and lipid orientation in the design of synthetic self-adjuvanting group A streptococcal (GAS) vaccine    abs#301
  Shoji Akita: Development of On-chip Fluorescence Assay for Serine/threonine Kinases    abs#302
  Toshinobu Arai: Discovery of novel L-amino acid α-ligases and application to dipeptide synthesis    abs#303
  Julie Bergeon: Enhancement of Oral Drug Absorption - Effect of Lipid and Glycoside Conjugation on the Enzymatic Stability and Intestinal Permeability of IM862    abs#304
  Christopher Brown: Constraining peptides in the context of a thioredoxin scaffold    abs#305
  Michelle Camerino: New drugs for diabetes: The Design and Molecular Modelling of α -Amylase Peptidomimetics    abs#306
  Andrew Coffey: A single source solution to peptide synthesis, analysis and purification    abs#307
  Oliver Demmer: Fast and Selective N-Alkylation on Solid Support for SAR Studies and Functionalization of Peptidic CXCR4 Antagonists    abs#308
  Thomas Durek: Total chemical synthesis of α-Bungarotoxin analogs as a tool for studying the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor    abs#309
  Michael Edmonds: The Effect of Fluorine on the Conformation of β-Amino Acids and β-Peptides    abs#310
  Walter Fairlie: Crystal structure of ABT-737 complexed with Bcl-xL: Implications for selectivity of Bcl-2 family antagonists    abs#311
  Debby Feytens: New potent Aia-containing SRIF mimetics    abs#312
  Yoshio Fujita: Development of a Multivalent Heteroepitopic Group A Streptococcus Vaccine    abs#313
  Linda Haugaard-Jonsson: Structural Characterization of a H3-INSL5 Relaxin Peptide Chimera    abs#314
  Peter Heegaard: A dimerised prion peptide (di PrP 106-126) with enhanced fibrillation activity also show enhanced in vitro caspase induction and in vivo neurotoxicity compared to the monomer peptide (PrP106-126)    abs#315
  Jean-Francois Hernandez: Solid phase synthesis of cyclic peptides with a guanidine bridge    abs#316
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