AuPS/Combio Brisbane 2006 Meeting

Provisional AuPS Symposia Programme

Monday 25 September 2006

Cellular Physiology

Symposium: Myopathies and muscle regeneration

Chair: Gordon Lynch and Graham Lamb

	Functional impairments in dystrophic muscles: lateral transmission of force and sarcomere dynamics (20060089) John Faulkner, University of Michigan
	Anti-inflammatory drugs, or increased IGF-1 expression, reduce necrosis of dystrophic muscle (20060011) Miranda Grounds
	Novel filament systems in normal, regenerating and diseased muscle (20060058) Edna Hardeman
	Intramuscular injection of the β-agonist formoterol enhances muscle regeneration in rats after myotoxic injury (20060049) Gordon Lynch

Membrane Transport

Symposium: The environment and genome in development: signalling from the beginning

Chair: Peter Kaye and Julie Owens

	Mechanisms of egg activation and how calcium signalling affects embryonic development (20060003) Keith Jones, University of Newcastle, UK
	Nutrient sensing by the early mouse embryo (20060078) Marie Pantaleon
	Interactions between fetal programming and postnatal diet: implications for development of the metabolic syndrome (20060073) Brendan Waddell
	Epigenetic consequences to offspring of nutritional deficiency in pregnancy (20060046) Marie Dziadek

Tuesday 26 September 2006

Cellular Physiology

Symposium: Autonomic Motor System/Smooth Muscle

Chair: Dirk van Helden and Phil Jobling

	Control of gut motility (20060002) Marcello Costa
	Ion channel dysfunction in endothelium dependent regulation of vascular smooth muscle (20060086) Helena Parkington
	Plasticity of neurovascular transmission following spinal cord injury (20060061) James Brock
	Extrinsic sensory innervation of the gut (20060080) Simon Brookes

Symposium: Endocrinology

Chair: Jon Curlewis and Ross Bathgate

	Understanding estrogen feedback actions on the brain using transgenic mouse models (20060083) Alan Herbison, University of Otago
	Intracellular signals employed by GHS-receptor in the regulation of pituitary growth hormone (GH) secretion (20060101) Chen Chen, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research
	Intracellular mechanisms that modulate sensitivity to hormone negative feedback: the regulation of prolactin during lactation (20060075) Stephen Anderson

Membrane Transport

Symposium: Molecular determinants of calcium signalling

Chair: Greg Barritt and Greg Monteith

	Ca²⁺ signalling and early embryonic patterning during zebrafish development (20060095) Andy Miller, Hong Kong
	Confocal imaging of lumenal and cytosolic [Ca²⁺] during Ca²⁺ release in skeletal muscle (20060020) Brad Launikonis
	The muscle model for intracellular calcium signalling: cross-talk between the calcium release channel and calcium buffer in the intracellular calcium store (20060072) Angela Dulhunty

Wednesday 27 September 2006

Cellular Physiology

Symposium: Development and Physiological Adaptions of Neuronal Circuits and Synapses I

Chair: Pankaj Sah and Louise Faber

	A novel trafficking pathway for NMDA receptors to synapses (20060005) Johanna Montgomery, University of Auckland
	Neural coding in the primary olfactory cortex (20060030) John Bekkers
	Learning rules for spike timing-dependent plasticity depend on dendritic synapse location (20060023) Greg Stuart
	SK channels modulate NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission in the lateral amygdala (20060004) Louise Faber

Membrane Transport

Symposium: Homeostatic control of calcium in the healthy and diseased heart

Chair: Livia Hooland Elizabeth Woodcock

	α1-Adrenergic signaling mediates cardiac adaptation to development and stress (20060084) Paul Simpson, University of California San Fancisco, USA
	Normal and abnormal functions of stretch-activated channels in the heart (20060013) David Allen
	α1A-adrenergic receptors activate phospholipase C, but suppress Ins(1,4,5)P3 generation during ischemia-reperfusion in mouse heart (20060074) Elizabeth Woodcock
	Store activation mechanism for cardiac ryanodine receptors (20060085) Derek Laver

Thursday 28 September 2006

Cellular Physiology

Symposium: Development and Physiological Adaptions of Neuronal Circuits and Synapses II

Chair: Peter Noakes and Bill Phillips

	Tissue organization along the neuromuscular axis: laminins match Schwann cell to axon to muscle (20060077) Bruce Patton, Oregon Health & Science University
	MIS and its role in neuronal development (20060076) Ian McLennan, University of Otago, New Zealand
	Developmental regulation of the neuromotor circuit: peripheral and central synaptic influences in motoneuron numbers and innervation of muscle (20060066) Peter Noakes

Membrane Transport

Symposium: Regulation of membrane transport

Chair: David Cook and Stefan Broer

	Role of proteases in the activation of epithelial Na⁺ channels (20060094) Tom Kleyman, University of Pittsburgh
	Evidence for the regulation of ion channels in the heart by reactive oxygen species – mechanism for mediating pathology (20060015) Livia Hool
	Regulation of epithelial sodium channel by Akt and Sgk (20060012) Jake IH Lee
	Serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase (SGK) interacts with the chloride channel ClC-5 to regulate renal albumin uptake (20060081) Deanne Hryciw