PROGRAM

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PROGRAM

The program will feature plenary lectures and symposia, free oral and poster communications. The program will be theme driven and will cover topics including peptide processing, the molecular biology of peptide receptors and their ligands, signal transduction, disease mechanisms, therapy and diagnosis. Therapeutic advances including pharmacogenomics, peptide delivery, and rational drug design will be included. State of the art talks and symposia are planned to take advantage of late breaking scientific advances with particular attention to the findings from the human and other genome sequencing projects. We would hope to define the functional roles of regulatory peptides in gastrointestinal tract secretions and repair, intestinal adaptation, appetite, inflammation, apoptosis, tumour biology and behaviour.
The current list of state of the art lecturers are listed below:

Alewood, Paul
The Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Centre for Drug Design and Development, University of Queensland, Australia
"Drug leads from Australia's venomous creatures"

Bowtell, David
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Australia
" Use of gene arrays in cancer diagnosis and treatment "

Bunnett, Nigel
Departments of Surgery and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
" Protease-activated receptors: how do proteases talk to cells? "

Cone, Roger
Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
" Neuroendocrine Control of Obesity"

Gearing, David
Millenium BioTherapeutics Inc, USA
" Genomic discovery and functional characterization in vivo. Lessons from platelet GPVI "

Hickman, John
Head of Cancer Research at Institut Servier, Paris, France
" Genetic determinants of drug damage-induced apoptosis in the gut "

Hood, Lee
President and Director
Institute for Systems Biology, USA
" Genomics, proteomics and systems biology "

Holst, Jens
Department of Medical Physiology/Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
" New advances in the biology of the glucagon-like peptides "

Kerr, John
Formerly Department of Pathology, University of Queensland, Australia
First described and coined the term "apoptosis"
" A personal history of the development of the apoptosis concept "

Kubes, Paul
Immunology Research Group, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary, Canada
" Molecules required for immune cell recruitment in the cardiovascular system: applying mouse models to human disease "

Kuhar, Mike
Department of Neuropharmacology, Yerkes Regional Primate Centre and Emory University, Atlanta, USA
" CART peptides in feeding, reward and reinforcement "

Metcalf, Don
Cancer and Haemetology Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
Lasker Prize recipient
" The specificity and polyfunctionality of hematopoietic regulators"

Podolsky, Daniel
Department of Medicine and Centre for Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
" Regulatory peptides and inflammation: Lessons from IBD in man and mouse "

Reubi, Jean Claude
Division of Cell Biology and Experimental Cancer Research, Institute of Pathology, University of Berne, Switzerland
" Expression of peptide receptors by tumours: implications for diagnosis and therapy "

Sexton, Patrick
Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Australia
" Receptor activity-modifying proteins - an update "

Turner, Tony
School of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK
" Turning off peptide signals: old enzymes and new developments "

Vaux, David
Division of Molecular Genetics and Cancer, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
" Two families of IAP proteins: regulatory of apoptosis and cell division "

Wang, Tim
Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
" Gastrin in health and disease "

Yamashita, Hiroshi
First Department of Physiology, University of Occupational Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
" Role and significance of orexin in feeding ".