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DAY 1 – DECEMBER 3 | DAY 2 – DECEMBER 4 | DAY 3 – DECEMBER 5 | DAY 4 – DECEMBER 6 | DAY 5 – DECEMBER 7 | POSTER NUMBERING
| DAY 1 – DECEMBER 3 | |
| 14:00 – 17:30 | Coach Transport from Perth Airport – Bunker Bay |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Registration (Pullman Bunker Bay Resort – Reception) |
| Session 1 (Windmills 1 & 2) – Conference opening and 1987 Fund Lecture | |
| Chair: Michael Landsberg | |
| 19:00 – 19:10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Alice Vrielink, SCANZ President |
| 19:10 – 20:00 | 1987 Fund Lecture Werner Kühlbrandt CryoEM of mitochondrial membrane protein complexes |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Welcome Reception (Restaurant Terrace and the Sugarloaf Rock Room) |
| DAY 2– DECEMBER 4 | |
| Session 2 – Mathieson Medal Lecture (Windmills 1 & 2) | |
| Chair: Chris Ling | |
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Mathieson Medal Lecture Vanessa Peterson In situ and in operando neutron and X-ray studies of functional materials |
Session 3 – Keynote Lecture Session and Flash Poster Presentations (Windmills 1 & 2) Sponsored by the University of Western Australia |
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| Chair: Chris Richardson | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Keynote Lecture 1 Shane Telfer Partially-Interpenetrated Metal-Organic Frameworks |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Flash Poster Presentations |
| Khidhir Alhameedi | Quantifying intermolecular interaction in crystals using Roby-Gould bond indices |
| Katrina Black | Investigating the role of conformational change in gating and conduction of KIR K+ channels |
| Ali Chahine | Crystal engineering of alkylamine-based coordination polymers for carbon dioxide capture |
| Asha Davidson | Exploring the programmability of synthetic PPR proteins to target specific RNA sequences |
| Camila Faoro | Rational targeting of the Signal Recognition Particle Receptor |
| Brady A. Johnston | Designer pentatricopeptide repeat proteins, a molecular spring in action |
| Md Habibur Rahaman | Targeting TIR domain assemblies in TLR signaling pathways to design anti-inflammatory drugs |
| Ariela Samantha | Structural determination of phosphatidylinositol-synthesizing engineered phospholipase D from Streptomyces antibioticus |
| Luke Smithers | Biophysical and Structural Characterisation of the Neisserial Capsule Export Machinery |
| Bishwa Subedi | Structural analysis of the type E pseudomurein peptide ligase from methanogenic archaea |
| Courtney Sullivan | Cell envelope biosynthetic pathways as targets for novel antibacterial drug design against Burkholderia pseudomallei and Neisseria meningitidis |
| Raphael Trenker | Screening and Crystallographic Analysis of Intramembrane Helix Interactions Using Lipidic Cubic Phase (LCP) Techniques |
| Sampath Yalamanchili | Expression, purification and biophysical characterization of enzymes from the lipid A biosynthesis pathway |
| Karina Yui Eto | DNA specificity of Ribbon-Helix-Helix proteins controlling mobilisation of Antimicrobial-Resistance Plasmids in Staphylococcus aureus |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Concurrent Session 4a – Exploration of minerals and materials (Windmills 1) |
| Chair: Christine Beavers | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 – Invited | Ulrike Troizsch Deciphering complex biogenic carbonates: The skeleton of coralline algae Porolithon onkodes viewed with synchrotron micro-X-ray diffraction |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Aaron Seeber Advanced Characterisation Methods Applied to Materials Produced at CSIRO’s Additive Manufacturing Centre |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Chris Ling Striped Magnetic Ground State of the Ideal Kagomé Lattice Compound Fe4Si2Sn7O16 |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Jason Price Chemical Crystallography at the Australian Synchrotron MX Beamlines |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Concurrent Session 4b – Biological Assemblies (Windmills 2) |
| Chair: Richard Birkinshaw | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 – Invited | Sara Sandin Phase plate cryo-EM analysis of chromatin |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Jeff Nanson Characterisation of higher-order assembly signaling in Toll-like receptor pathways |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Jerome Le Nours MR1 recognition by human gd T cells |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Lou Brillault CryoEM structure of the Bluetongue virus core-like particle: A recombinantly-engineered nano-delivery system |
| 12:05 – 12:25 – Invited | Alastair Stewart Cryo-EM studies of E. coli ATP synthase |
| 12:30 – 13:45 | Lunch and Sponsor Presentation |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Rigaku-Oxford Diffraction/AXT Sponsor Presentation (Windmills 1) Presented by Zoltan Gal |
| 13:45 – 15:15 | Session 5a – Bacteria & Viruses (Windmills 1) |
| Chair: Charlie Bond | |
| 13:45 – 14:05 – Invited | Ren Dobson Biology of bacterial sialic acid uptake |
| 14:05 – 14:20 | Sandro Ataide Structural Characterisation of EutV interactions with anti-termination hairpins |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | Phill Pymm MHC-I peptides get out of the groove and enable a novel mechanism of HIV-1 escape |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | Suresh Banjara Grouper iridovirus GIV66 is a Bcl-2 protein that inhibits apoptosis by exclusively sequestering Bim |
| 14:50 – 15:10 – Invited | Shaun Lott The structure and function of KstR, the major regulator of cholesterol catabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| 13:45 – 15:15 | Session 5b – Membrane Proteins (Windmills 2) |
| Chair: Sara Sandin | |
| 13:45 – 14:05 – Invited | Florante Quiocho Specificity of the Phosphate and Sulfate Initial Receptors for ABC Transporters: Never the Twain Shall Meet |
| 14:05 – 14:20 | Begoña Heras Structural insights into the regulation and inhibition of bacterial aggregation and biofilm formation |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | Michael Parker Cholesterol-Dependent Cytolysins: from Water-Soluble State to Membrane Pore |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | Bradley Spicer Protein conformation of C9 controls the final membrane complex assembly |
| 14:50 – 15:10 – Invited | Renae Ryan Structural characterisation reveals insights into substrate recognition by the Glutamine Transporter ASCT2 (SLC1A5) |
| 15:15 – 16:30 | Afternoon Tea and Posters (Sugarloaf Rock Room) |
| Odd numbered posters to present | |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Session 6 – New people and new results (Windmills 1 & 2) Sponsored by Bruker |
| Chair: Suzanne Neville | |
| 16:30 – 16:50 – invited | Kenji Sumida Functional superstructures of Metal-organic Frameworks |
| 16:50 – 17:10 – invited | Phil Gale Dissecting the chloride-nitrate anion transport assay |
| 17:10 – 17:30 – invited | Tara Christie Recruiting the PAN2-PAN3 deadenylase complex to mRNA targets |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Jack Clegg Flexible Crystals: Atomic resolution of the bending mechanism in [Cu(acac)2] |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Michael Landsberg Structure of the AAA+ ATPase Vps4: A Nightmare on EM Street |
| 18:15 | SCANZ Council Meeting |
| DAY 3– DECEMBER 5 | |
| Session 7 – Bragg Medal Lecture (Windmills 1 & 2) | |
| Chair: Alice Vrielink | |
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Bragg Medal Lecture Mark Spackman New ways of thinking about molecules in crystals |
| Session 8 – Keynote Lecture Session (Windmills 1 & 2) | |
| Chair: Begoña Heras | |
| 09:35 – 10:05 | Keynote Lecture 2 Sponsored by Douglas InstrumentsJenny Martin A tale in two parts: how a search for antivirulence compounds led to the discovery of a shapeshifting copper resistance protein |
| 10:05 – 10:35 | Morning Tea |
| 10:35 – 12:30 | Concurrent Session 9a – Applications of Porous Materials (Windmills 1) |
| Chair: Dave Turner | |
| 10:35 – 10:55 – Invited | Matthew Rowles Porous metal scaffolds for use in hydrogen storage |
| 10:55 – 11:10 | Josie Auckett Atomic-scale explorations of stimulus-responsive framework properties in an ultramicroporous gas sorbent |
| 11:10 – 11:25 | Christopher Sumby Organic Synthesis in a Metal-organic Framework – Insights from X-ray Crystallography |
| 11:25 – 11:40 | Timothy Ablott Development of a Borane-Loaded MOF Reagent |
| 11:40 – 11:55 | Stuart Batten Porous Coordination Polymers of Alkylamine Ligands |
| 10:35 – 12:30 | Concurrent Session 9b – Signalling and regulation (Windmills 2) |
| Chair: Bostjan Kobe | |
| 10:35 – 10:55 – Invited | Isabel Lucet Assembly and function of two interacting oncogenic pseudokinase scaffolds |
| 10:55 – 11:10 | Ghader Bashiri A generic mechanism for poly-γ-glutamylation in biomolecules |
| 11:10 – 11:25 | John Bruning The Human Sliding Clamp as a Therapeutic Target |
| 11:25 – 11:40 | Richard Berry A viral immunoevasin controls innate immunity by targeting a prototypical Natural Killer cell receptor |
| 11:40 – 11:55 | Andrew Hedger Structural basis of TIR domain assembly formation in the Toll-like receptor TRIF-dependent pathway |
| 11:55 – 12:10 | Drew Hall The structure-function relationship of transcriptional activators and antiactivators controlling quorum sensing and horizontal gene transfer |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Poster Session (Sugarloaf Rock Room) |
| Even numbered posters to present | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 |  Afternoon TeaSponsored by Molecular Dimensions |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Session 10 – Challenges in Crystallography (Windmills 1 & 2) Sponsored by AXT |
| Chair: Chris Sumby | |
| 16:00 – 16:20 – invited | David Aragao Recent and future developments on the Australian Synchrotron MX2 beamline driven by the Eiger 16M detector deployment |
| 16:20 – 16:40 – invited | James Hester Taking our raw data to the next level |
| 16:40 – 17:00 – invited | Charlie Bond Practical uncertainty in protein crystallography: It’s a monomer. Or is it? |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Helen Maynard-Casely Prospects for organic minerals on Saturn’s moon Titan |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Alison Edwards Has crystallography lost the plot on gender equity, or has it been penalized because of its historically greater equity? |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | SCANZ Annual General Meeting |
| DAY 4– DECEMBER 6 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 11 – Rising Star Session (Windmills 1 & 2) Sponsored by ThermoFisher Scientific |
| Chair: Jenny Martin | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Anandhi Anandan Structure of a lipid A phosphoethanolamine transferase, an endotoxin modifying enzyme from Gram-negative bacteria |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Angus Cowan The first crystal structures of Bak in complex with lipid offer novel insights into oligomerisation and membrane permeabilisation |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Emily Furlong Structural and functional analysis of two Proteus mirabilis copper resistance proteins reveals an unusual redox relay system |
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Gabriel Murphy The Unusual Structural Chemistry of Uranium: Controlling Phase Transformations in Ternary Uranium Oxides |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Sarah Piper Cryo-EM structure of a type-II ABC toxin complex provides new clues to the mechanism of cell surface recognition |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Gabrielle Watson Development of Potent and Selective Bicyclic Peptide Inhibitors of the Grb7 Cancer Target |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Session 12a – Properties through materials design (Windmills 1) |
| Chair: Josie Auckett | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 – Invited | Emily Reynolds Understanding correlated disorder within a MOF-5 analogue |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | David Turner Bis(Amino-Acid) Ligands in Crystal Engineering – Finding the Steric Goldilocks Zone |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Lauren Macreadie Improving Hydrophobicity of MOFs Using Aliphatic Linkers |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Chris Richardson Modulating organic reactivity in the solid-state through employing coordination polymer assemblies |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | Alan Rae A crystal structure that contains regions with different orientations, different origins and different space groups |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Session 12b – Biomolecular Recognition (Windmills 2) |
| Chair: Isabelle Lucet | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 – Invited | Rajesh Ghai Molecular basis of the assembly of COMMD proteins into the CCC/Retriever complex |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Richard Birkinshaw Pre-empting BCL2 mutational tolerance to Venetoclax, insights from structural biology |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Hayden Burdett Plant TIR domains as NADases; missing link in plant innate immune signaling? |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Peter Czabotar Development of a Bak inhibitory peptide based on the crystal structure of the Bak:BimBH3 complex |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | Julian Vivian Structural insights into the killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor family |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch and Sponsor Presentation |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Formulatrix Sponsor Presentation (Windmills 1) Presented by Jian Xu |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 13a – Magnetism and phase transitions (Windmills 1) |
| Chair: Emily Reynolds | |
| 14:00 – 14:20 – Invited | Yun Liu The symmetry-mode decomposition for better understanding of the structural evolution presented in polar functional materials |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | Brendan Kennedy Structural Studies of the monoclinic fergusonite to tetragonal scheelite structure in lanthanoid orthoniobates |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | Suzanne Neville Tailoring Elastic Frustration in Spin Crossover Networks |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Qingbo Xia New Electrode Materials for Lithium & Sodium Ion Batteries |
| 15:05 – 15:20 | Sean Injac Structural Trends and Single Electron Magnetism in Ru/Os Scheelite Type Oxides |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session 13b – Methods (Windmills 2) |
| Chair: Mitchell Guss | |
| 14:00 – 14:20 – Invited | Tom Peat A structural analysis of an entire enzymatic pathway |
| 14:20 – 14:35 | Christopher Lupton Establishing micro electron diffraction as new tool for structural biology |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | Patrick Stewart Microseed matrix-screening (rMMS): introduction, theory, practice and a new technique for membrane protein crystallization in LCP |
| 14:50 – 15:05 | Katherine Davies Structural studies of MLKL’s interaction with the plasma membrane using liposomes as a model system |
| 15:05 – 15:20 | Victor Fadipe Isoniazid-oleanolic acid co-crystal system: Synthesis, anti-TB and toxicological effect on the Human Embryonic Kidney (HEK293) and Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HepG2) cell lines |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| Session 14 – Keynote Lecture Session (Windmills 1 & 2) | |
| Chair: Helen Maynard-Casely | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |  Keynote Lecture 3Sponsored by ANSTO Christine Beavers High Pressure Crystallography: Not Just for Mineralogists Anymore! |
| Session 15 – THE EMBO LECTURE (Windmills 1 & 2) | |
| Chair: Jade Forwood | |
| 16:30 – 17:10 |  Keynote Lecture 4 – THE EMBO LECTURESponsored by EMBO Murray Stewart Crystallographic insights into the molecular mechanism of nucleocytoplasmic transport |
| 17:10 – 17:20 | AsCA 2018/Crystal 32 meeting announcement |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | Closing remarks Alice Vrielink, SCANZ President |
| 18:30 – late | Conference Dinner (Windmills 1 & 2) |
| DAY 5 – DECEMBER 7 | |
| 9:00 – 12:30 | Coach Transport from Bunker Bay – Perth Airport |
| POSTER NUMBERING | ||
| # | Presenting author | Title |
| 1S | Khidhir Alhameedi | Quantifying intermolecular interaction in crystals using Roby-Gould bond indices |
| 2S | Katrina Black | Investigating the role of conformational change in gating and conduction of KIR K+ channels |
| 3S | Ali Chahine | Crystal engineering of alkylamine-based coordination polymers for carbon dioxide capture |
| 4 | Paul Crellin | Crystal structure of a novel membrane protein essential for cell wall lipoglycan synthesis in Mycobacteria |
| 5S | Asha Davidson | Exploring the programmability of synthetic PPR proteins to target specific RNA sequences |
| 6S | Camila Faoro | Rational targeting of the Signal Recognition Particle Receptor |
| 7 | Thierry Izoré | Ebony C-terminal domain is an arylalkylamine n-acetyltransferase |
| 8S | Brady A. Johnston | Designer pentatricopeptide repeat proteins, a molecular spring in action |
| 9 | Janet Newman | Extending CINDER to let users score for themselves |
| 10S | Md Habibur Rahaman | Targeting TIR domain assemblies in TLR signaling pathways to design anti-inflammatory drugs |
| 11S | Ariela Samantha | Structural determination of phosphatidylinositol-synthesizing engineered phospholipase D from Streptomyces antibioticus |
| 12S | Luke Smithers | Biophysical and Structural Characterisation of the Neisserial Capsule Export Machinery |
| 13S | Bishwa Subedi | Structural analysis of the type E pseudomurein peptide ligase from methanogenic archaea |
| 14S | Courtney Sullivan | Cell envelope biosynthetic pathways as targets for novel antibacterial drug design against Burkholderia pseudomallei and Neisseria meningitidis |
| 15S | Raphael Trenker | Screening and Crystallographic Analysis of Intramembrane Helix Interactions Using Lipidic Cubic Phase (LCP) Techniques |
| 16 | Richard Welberry | Single Crystal Diffuse Scattering using Neutrons |
| 17S | Sampath Yalamanchili | Expression, purification and biophysical characterization of enzymes from the lipid A biosynthesis pathway |
| 18S | Karina Yui Eto | DNA specificity of Ribbon-Helix-Helix proteins controlling mobilisation of Antimicrobial-Resistance Plasmids in Staphylococcus aureus |