Themes for the Milk Genomics Satellite Meeting
A symposium for postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows
Comparative Genomics of lactation – the big questions in mammary gland biology
Monday November 14
Prest Theatre, University of Melbourne
(a short tram ride from the centre of Melbourne)
Registration 8:00-9:00am
8:30am Welcome – Prof Kevin Nicholas
8:40am Opening address- The evolution of lactation Prof Christophe Lefevre (Deakin University)
1. Human lactation; The role of milk in programming development Chair Prof Peter Hartmann (University of Western Australia)
9:00am Breastfeeding, regulation of food intake and obesity (Prof Peter Hartmann, University of Western Australia)
9:30am miRNA in milk – a role in signalling development? (Prof Christophe Lefevre, DeakinUniversity)
9:50am Gene Expression in the human breast during lactation and involution (Dr Julie Sharp, Deakin University)
10:10am Intrinsic messages in human milk; what’s new?
The milk cryptome (Ashalyn Watt, Deakin University) – 5mins
Proteomic and metabolomic analysis of human milk (Dr James Lui, University of Western Australia ) – 15 mins
10:30am Morning Tea break
2. Comparative genomics of Lactation – what can we learn about mammary gland biology and milk composition Chair Prof Kevin Nicholas (Deakin University)
10:50am Lactation in the fur seal, platypus and tammar wallaby– unique animal models to study the comparative genomics of lactation. (Dr Julie Sharp, Deakin University)
11:10am The mouse; Developing predictive models of lactation performance (Prof Peter Williamson, University of Sydney)
11:30am Hot spots in comparative lactation
Seal lactation; A new model to study involution of the mammary gland (Laurine Buscara, Deakin University) – 10 mins
Innate immunity in the mammary gland; delivery of new antibacterials in wallaby milk (Stephen Wanyonyi, Deakin University) – 10 mins
Sialic acid biosynthesis and sialyltransferase genes during lactation in the tammar wallaby (Dr Jovana Maksimovic, Murdoch Institute) – 10 mins
12:00pm Pigeon Crop milk – is pigeon crop the avian mammary gland? (Dr Tamsyn Crowley, Deakin University)
12:30pm Lunch
3. Stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, cloning, transgenics – technologies to address the big questions in mammary gland biology Chair Prof Chris Ormandy
1:30pm Delineating the mammary stem cell hierarchy and its molecular regulators (Prof Jane Visvander, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)
2:00pm Stem cells in the lactating mammary gland and breastmilk of women (Dr Foteini Hassiotou, University of Western Australia}
2:30pm iPSC and Animal Cloning; the new frontier in lactation ( Dr Paul Verma, Monash University))
3:00pm Elf5 and lineage specification in the mammary gland (Dr Chris Ormandy, Garvan Institute).
3:30pm Afternoon Tea
4. Bioinformatics – Databases to drive comparative mammary gland biology into the next decade Chair Prof Christophe Lefevre
3:50pm Comparative genomics of milk proteins and what it tells us about the species (Dr Nora Khaldi, University College Dublin).
4:10pm Comparative analysis of lactation (Prof Christophe Lefevre, Deakin University)
4:30pm On line tools for gene expression analysis of lactation (Philip Church, Deakin University)
4:45pm miRNA bioinformatics and lactation (Amit Kumar, Deakin University)
5:00pm Close and drinks