Registration closed 20 November 2019
About the workshop
The workshop will take place in Hobart, Tasmania on 5-6 December, 2019 at the RACV Apartment Hotel. If you book a room at the hotel, then please use Block Code: 1912MENZIE and Reference: 8985957 (10% discount if at least 8 rooms are booked for the workshop).
Registration
Registration closed 20 November 2019
2019 Program
Thursday, 5 December 2019
0815 – 0900
Workshop registration opens.
Location: RACV/RACT Hobart Apartment Hotel – Collins Room (Look for the WACI logo on the monitor outside the room)
0900 – 0930
Opening Session: Why are we here and where are we going? Location: RACV/RACT Hobart Apartment Hotel – Collins Room
Prof Graeme Zosky – Deputy Director, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, UTAS
Jerome Le Nours – Welcome to the workshop
Howard Roberts – Millennium Science Pty Ltd
Theme 1 – Reagents, techniques, and applications
0930 – 1000
Theme 1 – Andy Flies – FAST proteins for Wild Immunology
1000 – 1030
Theme 1 – Sarah Shigdar – Can aptamers fill the gap? Their potential for WACI.
1030 – 1100
Morning tea
1100 – 1130
Theme 1 –Sri Ramarathinam – Devil is in the detail: Developing Mass spectrometry assays to understand antigen presentation in Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease
1130 – 1200
Theme 1 – Jerome Le Nours – Molecular insights into non-peptide-centric T cell immunity
1200 – 1300
Lunch – provided at the venue
Theme 2 – New Model Species Development
1300 – 1330
Theme 2 – Rob Miller – What new model species teach us about immune systems that mice did not
1330 – 1400
Theme 2 – Yuanyuan Cheng – Towards a better understanding of immune gene families in wild species in the era of 3rd-generation sequencing
1400 – 1430
Summary and discussion – Michelle Baker and Amanda Patchett
1430 – 1500
Afternoon tea
1500 – 1630
Day 1 summary and discussion
1800 – 2000
Science in the Pub – WACI pub talk (Click here to register) Location: Republic Bar and CafeÂ, 299 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart Wild diseases – the answers are out there #SciPubWild Panellists Travis Beddoe, La Trobe University Chrissie Ong, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania Liana Wait, Princeton University Free nibbles at the event |
Friday, 6 December 2019
0830 – 0900
Arrival and networking.
Theme 3 – New model species development
0900 – 0930
Theme 3 – Kenneth Beagley – Developing a Koala Chlamydia vaccine: a long and winding road
0930 – 1000
Theme 3 – Kirsty Short – Comparative genomics: an important weapon in the fight against avian influenza
1000 – 1030
Theme 3 – Anne Peters – A long-term individual-based study in a tropical bird
1030 – 1100
Morning tea
Theme 4 – WACI in the next decade
1100 – 1130
Theme 4 – Lee Skerratt – Emerging Infectious Diseases: past, present and future with a focus on chytridiomycosis?
1130 – 1200
Theme 4 – Michelle Baker
1200 – 1300
Lunch – provided at the venue
Theme 5 – Synthesis and strategy
1300 – 1300
Summary and discussion – Jerome Le Nours and Andy Flies
1330 – 1500
Manuscript outline(s) – Jerome Le Nours, Michelle Baker, Andy FliesExpand on the previous “The future of humans as model organisms” eLetter by Flies, Baker, Le Nours, and Rossjohn
Manuscripts for each theme
1500 – 1530
Afternoon tea
1530 – 1630
Funding plans (e.g. ARC Centre of Excellence (CoE) 2023)
1630 – TBD
Social hour(s)
Drinks and food can be purchased from the Cascade on Collins down the hallway. The Collins room is available all night for eating, drinking, and socialising.
Transportation
Airports:
Hobart Airport ~20 minute drive to conference venue; buses and taxis available
Launceston Airport ~2 hour drive to conference venue
Places to eat and drink
Things to do nearby
Mount Field National Park ~ 90 minutes
Bruny Island ~ 30 minute drive + 30 minute ferry ride
Port Arthur Historic Site ~ 90 minutes
Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary ~ 30 minutes
Freycinet National Park ~ 2 hours 30 minutes
Mount Wellington – Kunanyi ~ 30 minutes
Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) ~ 20 minutes
Cradle Mountain National Park ~ 4 hours