Agenda - Day 1

Time

Session

Presentation Title

Presenter

Arrival Activities

8.45 

Welcome to country on the beach by the ferry terminal (please bring appropriate sun protection)

Walter McGuire is a Wadjuk Bibbulmun Noongar maam
and owner/operator of Go Cultural Aboriginal Tours and Experiences, with his wife Meg McGuire. Their multi-award winning business is based right here on Bibbulmun Country in Perth, Western Australia.

As a proud descendent of several Bibbulmun tribal clans of the Southwest of WA, Walter continues ‘Telling the First Story” of Aboriginal People to local, interstate customers and international visitors to Perth from all over the world. 

Walter McGuire

9.00

Travel to Rottnest Island Picture Hall

9.15

MORNING TEA ON ARRIVAL

9.30

Opening Address

André Schultz       

9.40

Invited Speaker - Professor Bill Cookson 

Digital spatial pathology of asthmatic airways: immunity and microbes come in layers

Bill Cookson

Bill Cookson is a medical graduate of UWA, who is currently Professor of Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London. His research career began with In WA with studies of allergies in seasonal grain workers and the epidemiology of asbestosis in Wittenoom miners. In Oxford he led large projects to identify the genetic basis of asthma, and now in London he is investigating the role of the lung microbiome in asthma and other diseases.

10.20

Indigenous Health Research Session

WAPAR Cohort study

Pam Laird

10.35

Indigenous Health Research Session

You can't ask that!': adapting measures to ensure safety cultural safety

Jamie Everingham

10.50

Indigenous Health Research Session

Bringing together the importance of land and water in indigenous culture and the potential of phages to treat chronic bacterial infections

Anthony Kicic

11.05

Indigenous Health Research Session

Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey (WAACHS) Linked Data Study

Kathryn Ramsey

11.20

BREAK

11.35

Update from 2023 Seed Funding award winners 

VADER: Viral Antibacterial Data for Endolysin Recovery 

Andrew Vaitekenas

11.45 - 12.00

New Investigator

Transcriptomic analysis of paediatric acute wheeze using existing and emerging technologies

Ashlyn Pool

12.00 - 12.15

New Investigator

Differences in the Systemic Type 1 Interferon Responses of Neonates and Adults

Lucy Hartnell

12.12 - 12.30

New Investigator

Reducing RESPiratory hospital Admissions in children with cerebral palsy: A feasibility randomised Controlled Trial (RESP-ACT)

Rachael Marpole

12.30 - 12.45

New Investigator 

Understanding the functional decision-making of neutrophils through transcriptomic analysis of their canonical functions.

Sourav Shyam

12.45 - 1.00

New Investigator 

The tuberculosis lung virome of 18th Century mummified lung tissue: longevity and novelty

Talya Conradie

1.00

LUNCH

14.00 - 14.15

Raw Data 

AERIAL Respiratory Virus Data - Can we do better?

Liz Starcevich, Patricia Agudelo Romero, Nina D'Vaz

14.15 - 14.30

Raw Data 

The vulnerable epithelium and its clinical implications in early life. Characterising poor epithelial repair and preclinically testing therapeutic efficacy in enhancing repair

Danush Murali and Aaron Gomes

14.30 - 14.45

Raw Data 

A creative approach to phage therapy.

Jane Choi and Renee Ng

14.45 - 15.00

Raw Data 

Characteristics of ALI cultures derived from primary ovine tracheal airway epithelial cells.

Dylan Chia

15.00 - 15.15

Raw Data 

Cross platform assessment of affinity-based targeted plasma proteomics using samples from the ConCorD-19 clinical trial

Samuel Montgomery

15.15 - 15.30

Raw Data 

TBC

Peter Le Souef

15.30

AFTERNOON TEA &

POSTER SESSION

16.30

Close of Day 1

EVENING ACTIVITIES

18.35

Dinner at The Picture Hall followed by a Quiz Night