Wednesday, 28th October 11th Australian Peptide Conference 2015

Located outside the Ballroom

• Chemical synthesis of complex peptides and proteins by native chemical ligation - Thomas Durek
• Use of Peptide Surrogates to Study HIV1 Structural Biology - Fred Naider
• Antimicrobial peptide dendrimers: design, synthesis and scaffold effect - James P Tam
• Chemoselective arylation of amino acids and peptides. - Frederik Diness
• Cysteine arylation enables production of abiotic peptides and proteins - Brad Pentelute

• Membrane-recognising and -translocating lipopeptides: Promising shuttles for efficient application of target specific carrier systems - Margitta Dathe
• Intracellular Target-specific Accretion of Cell Penetrating Peptides and Bioportides: Ultrastructural and Biological Correlates  - John Howl
• Injectable peptide hydrogels for controlled-release of opioids - Steven Ballet
• Toward development of peptide-based vaccines against Schistosoma mansoni and Necator americanus   - Mariusz Skwarczynski
• Intracellular targeting by oligo- or polypeptide conjugates - Ferenc Hudecz

• Semaglutide, a glucagon like peptide-1 designed for once weekly dosing - Jesper Lau
• Engineering potent and selective analogues of GpTx-1, a tarantula venom peptide antagonist of the NaV1.7 sodium channel - Les Miranda
• Phosphopeptide Mimetics Targeting the SH2 domain of STAT6: Potent Therapeutics for Asthma - John S McMurray
• Proline-rich antibacterial peptides in wound healing - Laszlo Otvos
• Development of CD44-targeted chemotherapeutic drugs as a treatment modality for cancer stem cells - Tracey J Brown

Wine tasting proudly sponsored by Davies Collision Cave

• Techniques to study cholesterol dependent citolysins (CDCs) binding  to cholesterol containing membranes - Mirijam Kozorog
• Molecular origins of conformational difference in crystal and solution states of human beta defensin - Jianguo Li
• Effective Lipidated Peptide-dimers Antimicrobials against Drug-resistant Gram-negative Pathogens by the Action of LPS Permeabilization - Shouping Liu
• Functional analysis of oxytocin-like signaling in ants - Zita Liutkeviciute
• A SWATH MS based proteomic investigation for detection of early stage CRC biosignatures  - Sadia Mahboob
• Development of a novel oral delivery system for lipid core peptide-based vaccines against group A streptococcus (GAS) - Nirmal Marasini
• A comparative study of heating methods used for automated SPPS of difficult sequences - Daniel Martínez
• Pharmacokinetic profiling of the cyclic peptide Kalata B1 - Erik Melander
• ToPI1: a novel class of protease inhibitor characterized from Tityus obscurus scorpion venom - Caroline BF Mourão
• Optimisation of Multicomponent Systems for the Targeted Delivery of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics - Peter M Moyle
• Characterization and structural study of antimicrobial lipopeptides from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BC32-1 - Jiyoung Nam
• Biomimetic arylopeptoids – library design, synthesis, properties and biological activities - John Nielsen
• Cell-penetrating ability and plasmid DNA delivery using fluorescein-labeled arginine-rich peptides - Makoto Oba
• Development of Plate Reader and On-Line Microfluidic Screening to Identify Ligands of the 5-Hydroxytryptamine Binding Protein in Venoms - Reka Otvos
• Structural and Functional Study of a Novel Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide BuMAP-28 and its analogue (BuMAP-28)18 - varuna panicker
• Ppa-iRGD-BK01 as a Depot Peptide for Effective Photodynamic Therapy - SungJun Park
• Ribosomal synthesis of highly N- and O-methylated cyclic peptide libraries for selection of protein-protein interaction inhibitors with “drug-like” characteristics. - Toby Passioura
• Extracellular affinity-gradient drives the entry of a plant defensin into the fungal cell - Jennifer A E Payne
• Re-engineering Polymyxins to Improve Their Safety and Efficacy: Development of the Next-Generation Polymyxin Antibiotics - Kade Roberts
• Proteomics investigation of histone H3 N-terminal postranslational modifications as key regulators in response to salinity stress induced oxidative stress in soybean - Sai Ming Sai Ming Ngai
• The scorpion toxin Tf2 from Tityus fasciolatus promotes Nav1.3 opening - Elisabeth F Schwartz
• Bi-specific splice-switching PMO oligonucleotides conjugated via a single peptide active in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy - Fazel Shabanpoor
• Analysing defensin sequence space to inform engineering - Thomas Shafee
• The synthesis and characterisation of helminth bioactive peptides as potential therapeutic treatments for autoimmune diseases - Taylor Smallwood
• High-throughput LC/MS/MS screening for performance and image enhancing peptide drugs (PIEDs) - Rohan Steel
• Improving lipid-based vaccines immunogenicity with dendritic cell-targeting - Rachel J Stephenson
• Short cationic antimicrobial peptides display favorable antifungal activities towards Onychomycosis and Candidiasis in comparison with amorolfine and terbinafine - Johan Svenson
• Site-specific ligation of peptides and proteins using butelase - James P. Tam
• α-Conotoxin dendrimers have enhanced potency and selectivity for homomeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors - Jingjing Wan
• Delivery of siRNA with a stearylated multicomponent peptide  - Yu Wan
• The interaction of proline-rich antimicrobial peptides with E. coli/model membrane     - Li Wen Yi
• Inhibitor peptide design – improving affinity without losing specificity - Jacqueline A Wilce
• Developing a robust self-optimizing MS/MS QTOF workflow for de novo verification of synthetic peptides in biopharmaceutical applications - Lucy A Woods
• Developing orthogonal disulfide pairing technology to direct peptide folding and cyclization - Chuanliu Wu
• Structural Studies of FAS1 domains of Human Periostin, an extracellular matrix protein involved in asthma and cancer metastasis - Hyosuk Yun
• Novel Peptides from Scorpaeniform Venoms - Rebekah Ziegman
• Comparison of structural conformation and stability of native and mutated ω-conotoxins - David Armstrong
• Cell-penetrating Phylomer peptides can successfully deliver the dominant-negative Myc mutant Omomyc and induce apoptosis in breast cancer cells  - Nadia Milech
• A selective and successive metathesis route to multi-dicarba peptides - Caitlin M McArthur