Monday, 26th October 11th Australian Peptide Conference 2015

Located outside the Ballroom

• Drug development strategies for a therapeutically relevant peptide-binding GPCR - Laurence J Miller
• Pharmacologically targeting of the GPCRs, relaxin family peptide receptors (RXFPs) - M. Akhter Hossain
• Targeting Melanocortin Receptors: A Multimodal System for Drug Discovery for Our Major Degenerative Diseases - Minying Cai
• Conopeptide-derived k-opioid agonists (conorphins): potent, selective and metabolic stable dynorphinA mimetics with anti-nociceptive properties. - Andreas Brust
• Mechanisms of opioid receptor signaling bias - Macdonald J Christie

Photo location: steps leading onto the Mantra

• Peptides from the Nature to the Laboratory - Fernando Albericio
• Convergent (Glyco)protein assembly enabled by N→S acyl transfer - Derek Macmillan
• Peptide transition metal complexes in catalysis and proteolysis - Morten Meldal
•  Labeling and conjugation of furan modified peptides and proteins under physiological conditions  - Annemieke Madder
• Chemical Synthesis of homogeneous glycoprotein and insight into the relationship between glycosylation pattern and biological activity - Yasuhiro Kajihara

• Peptide conjugated bioactive compounds as cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical agents - Yoon-Sik Lee
• Self-assembled peptide gels for 3D in vitro cell cultures and other applications in nanomedicine - Pall Thordarson
• The Use of Novel Multilayer-Microparticles to Enhance Oral Bioavailability of Liraglutide - Maggie Lu
• Peptide-guided bioprobes for target-responsive molecular imaging and intracellular anticancer drug activation - Rui Zhao
• Cellular high resolution screening: Post-column flow cytometry for discovery of alpha7-nAChR bioactive peptides in venoms - Jeroen Kool

Wine tasting proudly sponsored by Davies Collision Cave

• Liposomes as Delivery System for Peptide-based Vaccine Against Group A Streptococcus - Khairunnisa Abdul Ghaffar
• Exploiting unnatural amino acids for structural biology - Luke Adams
• Prolonged exposure of Staphylococcus aureus to 4 °C leads to alterations in protein and metabolic composition - Mousa Alreshidi
• Dual alleviation of acute and neuropathic pain by fused opioid agonist-neurokinin 1 antagonist peptidomimetics - Steven Ballet
• Ribosomal synthesis of fused tricyclic peptides via reprogrammed in vitro translation and chemical modification - Nasir K Bashiruddin
• Cross-linking of Orthosteric and Allosteric Ligands to Ste2p, a Yeast Peptide-Ligand G Protein-Coupled Receptor - Jeffrey Becker
• The design and optimization of bombesin-poly-L-lysine dendron fusions for tumour-targeted oligonucleotide delivery  - Anjuman Ara Begum
• Topological isomerism in disulfide rich peptide turn mimetics - Meg E Bongers
• Functional analysis of the N-terminal residues of human amylin - Rebekah Bower
• Lipid core peptide as effective delivery system to trigger cellular immune responses against malaria - Saranya Chandrudu
• A systematic investigation of CID Q-TOF collision energies for complete identification of glycopeptides by mass spectrometry - Maja Christiansen
• Development of anti-inflammatory peptides - Claudia Cobos Cáceres
• Optimizing Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis at Elevated Temperature - Jonathan M Collins
• A fluorescent tool to probe NK₁ receptor signalling from endosomal platforms - Joshua Conner
• Optimizing the nuclear localization of a Multicomponent Gene Delivery System - Wei Dai
• Bromomaleimide as a platform for the construction of dendrimeric peptides and demonstration of highly chemoselective ligations - Beatriz G de la Torre
• IMPROVING THE THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF A NOVEL μ-OPIOID AGONIST PEPTIDE - Zoltan Dekan
• Development of Cell-penetrating Fragment Conjugated Helical Peptides as Inhibitors of Estrogen Receptor-Mediated Transcription - Yosuke Demizu
• Structural insights into cyclic plant peptides and their albumin precursors - Bastian Franke
• Epitope Mapping Analysis of Glycopeptide Mucin 1 by Combining Microarray and STD-NMR - Fayna Garcia Martin
• Study of self-assembled nanostructures of short length α-Alanine homotetramer - Rahul Goel
• DEVELOPMENT OF PEPTIDE THERAPEUTICS FOR IRON DISORDERS - Daniela Goncalves Monteiro
• Saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR in drug discovery of stabilized GPCRs: probing the orthosteric and allosteric ligand binding modes to α₁-adrenoceptors. - Paul Gooley
• Peptide neutralization of autoantibodies - Ulf Göransson
• Self-assembly of β-amino acid containing peptides to higher order functional nanostructures - Alka Gupta
• Cytoskeleton-membrane lipid raft interactions in tumor progression: regulation by ovarian tumor suppressor OPCML - Michelle M Hill
• A continuous-flow mass biosensor for probing the conformation-dependent dynamics of protease inhibition - Yanyan Huang
• Evaluation of lipopeptides as toll-like receptor 2 ligands - Waleed M Hussein
• Targeting antigenic site on RSV F protein associated with virus neutralization for vaccine design - Noushin Jaberolansar
• Development of potent and selective peptide agonists of the C3a receptor. - Kathryn AV Jackson
• Solid-Phase Synthesis of Azotides and Their Employment in Green Catalysis - Christian Borch Jacobsen
• Highly Fluorescent Quantum Dot-Assembled Magnetic-Silica Nanoparticles for Bio Imaging and Cell Separation - Cheolhwan Jeong
• Evolution of an Ancient Venom: the Common Evolutionary Origin of Sodium and Potassium Neurotoxins in Sea Anemone - Mahdokht Jouiaei
• Optimisation of Dendron Structure for a Multicomponent Oligonucleotide Delivery System  - Khairul Kamaruzaman
• Incorporation of Cystathionine as a Cystine Mimetic in Insulin to Develop More Stable Analogues. (29162) - John A Karas
• Ultrastructure of metallopeptide-based soft spherical morphologies - Gagandeep Kaur
• Isolation and Structure-Activity Relationship of Pelgipeptins Produced by Paenibacillus elgii BC34-6 - Jueun Kim
• Discovery and characterization of novel bioactive peptides from insects - Johannes Koehbach
• MITF- and SFRP5-derived Peptides Inhibit Melanogenesis via Suppression of MITF and Wnt activity - Dong-young Lim
• YAC tripeptide of EGF induces EGFR clustering through FAK-mediated Rac1-Wave2-Arp2 and RhoA-Rock2-Ezrin signaling axis - Yuri Kim