Friday, 20th October ABNA: Biobanking On Record (ABNA 20th Annual Conference)

7:25AM - 9:00AM
Friday, 20th October

7:20 - Meet at reception to walk into SeaWorld Park

7:30 - 8:50 site visit at Shark Bay and Jellyfish Biobank

8:50 - 9:00 Walk back to conference centre

9:00AM - 9:30AM
Friday, 20th October
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Friday, 20th October
Chair: Chris Gorman

0:30 - 9:40 - Gold Sponsor – Bio-tools - Alexis MacLeod  - Azenta Life Science Talk 

9:40 - 10:00 – Tamsin Robb - “A Whole New World”: One extraordinary woman’s tissue donation and the new avenues of research she inspired

10:00 - 10:20 – Hamish MacDonald – “Go Your Own Way”: Achieving Nagoya Protocol compliance without a legal framework

10:20 - 10:40 – Dr Pete Thrall - "Information Overload”: CSIRO Digitisation project

10:40 - 10:50 - Rapid Fire - Maria Villalva – Implementing High Throughput Workflow Ch-Ch-Changes to Streamline Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell (PBMC) Isolation

10:50 - 11:00 - Gold Sponsor Presentation – Dirk Macky: Testo "Cold as Ice" - What you should expect in a quality environmental monitoring system 

11:00AM - 11:30AM
Friday, 20th October
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Friday, 20th October
Chair: Catherine Kennedy

11:30 - 11:50 – Dr Andrew Rayfield – “Running up that Hill?” A potential new olfactory cell therapy for spinal cord injury and other injuries to the nervous system. 

11:50 - 12:10 – Nicola Rivers – “Stayin’ Alive”: The Australian Frozen Zoo's fight against extinction

12:10 - 12:30 – Anna Russo – Consent: “The Sound of Silence”

12:30 - 12:50 – Felicity Poulsen – “Answers don’t come easy”: Biospecimen collection and use in the forensic sciences

12:50 - 1:00 – Gold Sponsor - Path Tech

1:00PM - 2:00PM
Friday, 20th October
2:00PM - 3:10PM
Friday, 20th October
Chair: Shirley Wee

2:00 - 2:20 – Nigel McMillan – “Daydream Believer” – Biobanking the most common cause of cancer – microorganisms.   

2:20 - 2:40 – Volker Herzig – “Poison”: Spider venoms for saving honeybees from varroa mites

2:40 - 3:00 – Chloe Yap – “How to make gravy”: Autism and the gut microbiome

3:00 - 3:10 – Jennifer Byrne - A national approach to collections and biobanking- "with a little help from my friends”

3:10PM - 3:30PM
Friday, 20th October
Chair: Cassandra Griffin

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