Thursday, 29th October 11th Australian Peptide Conference 2015

Located outside the Ballroom

• Progress in developing accurate protein force fields - Yun-Dong Wu
• Rational design and synthesis of a novel Na_V1.8 selective inhibitor - Christina I Schroeder
• Antibody recognition guided by the intrinsic flexibility of overlapping disulfide-constrained peptide epitopes - Rodrigo Morales
• Macrocyclic-peptide ligands that inhibit transporter function and improve protein crystallization - Chris J Hipolito
• Minituarised alpha-conotoxins that target the GABA(B) receptor. - Richard J Clark

• Peptides with a polymer coat: Self-assembled nanotubes - Katrina A. Jolliffe
• Engineering stabilized peptide-dimers derived from the human cathelicidin LL-37: design, synthesis, structural characterization and bioactivity screening - Taj Muhammad
• Structural studies of cyclic peptides from sunflowers and their unusual seed storage albumin precursors - K. Johan Rosengren
• Exploring markers of cyclic peptide permeability - Conan KL Wang
• A RaPID way for the discovery of human hepatocyte growth factor agonists with macrocyclic peptide scaffolds - Hiroaki Suga

• Role of Gαq as the common mediator of G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) tyrosine and serine/threonine kinase dependent transactivation signaling in vascular smooth muscle - Peter Little
• Conformational and topographical considerations in the design of biological active peptides - Victor J. Hruby
• How nature rigidifies a peptide scaffold: Investigating aglycone maturation during glycopeptide antibiotic biosynthesis - Max J. Cryle
• Structure based drug design on complex peptide GPCRs; Studies on the relaxin receptor RXFP1 - Ross Bathgate

• Venoms to drugs: spider-venom peptides for the treatment of epilepsy and stroke - Glenn F King
• Cryo-Electron Microscopy studies on perforin-like proteins - James Whisstock