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Agenda - Day 1

Activities and sessions on day one

All scientific events take place at the Rottnest Island Picture Hall.

Thursday | 14 November                                                                                                              

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

10.20

Indigenous Health Research Session

Prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases in Aboriginal children: A whole population study

Pam Laird

10.35

Indigenous Health Research Session

Study recruitment and ensuring culturally appropriate questions

Jamie Everingham

10.50

Indigenous Health Research Session

The naming of phages and Gold Fields partnership  

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 

Bridging the gap between the lab and the clinic for novel asthma treatments 

David Hancock

11.41

Update from 2023 Seed Funding award winners 

VADER: Viral Antibacterial Data for Endolysin Recovery 

Andrew Vaitekenas

11.50

New Investigator

 TBC

TBC

12.05

New Investigator

 TBC

TBC

12.20

New Investigator

 TBC

TBC

12.35

New Investigator 

 TBC

TBC

12.50

LUNCH

14.00

Raw Data 

 TBC

Liz Starcevich

14.20

Raw Data 

 TBC

TBC

14.40

Raw Data 

 TBC

TBC

15.00

Raw Data 

 TBC

TBC

15.20

AFTERNOON TEA &

POSTER SESSION

   

16.00

Close of Day 1

   

EVENING ACTIVITIES

     

18.30

Dinner at The Picture Hall followed by a Quiz Night

   

View the agenda for Day 2.