Program
9:00 - 9:10 OPEN
Session 1: Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Bench to bedside
Chairs: Philip Mitchell
Cyndi Shannon Weickert
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
(NeuRA)/UNSW, Sydney, Australia
9:10 - 9:40 Valsamma Eapen Neurodevelopmental disorders: lessons from co-morbidities UNSW, Sydney, Australia
9:40 - 10:10 Kim Cornish Clinical phenotypes associated with Fragile X
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
10:10 - 10:40 Thomas Bourgeron From the genetic architecture to synaptic plasticity in autisms Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
10:40 - 11:00 MORNING TEA
Poster Session
Session 2: Genetics
Chairs: John Mattick
Amelia Assareh
Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
11:00 - 11:30 Ryan Yuen
Whole genome sequencing of autism spectrum disorders
11:30 - 12:00 Ingrid Scheffer
Genetics at the intersection of autism and the epilepsies
12:00 - 12:15 Charles Claudianos
The role of non-coding DNA in autism
12:15 - 12:30 Irina Voineagu
Enhancer RNAs mark noncoding regions enriched for ASD genetic variants
Session 3: Early Career Researchers Datablitz
Chairs: Jason Howitt
Jon Brock
12:30 - 12:40 Ashwyn Perera
Tracking development in a new model of autism
12:40 - 12:50 Brendan Swan
Exome sequencing of autism in New Zealand
12:50 - 1:00 Michelle Watts
How do microRNAs affect neuronal function?
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
FINMH/University of Melbourne, Australia
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
FINMH, Melbourne, Australia
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
University of Melbourne, Australia
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1:00 - 1:30 LUNCH
Poster Session
Session 4: Cognitive Mechanisms
Chairs: Phil Ward
Adam Guastella
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
BMRI/University of Sydney, Australia
Autism genomics: linking vocal communication and neuronal function
1:30 - 2:00 Gena Konopka
UTSW, Dallas, USA
2:00 - 2:30 Zoltan Molnar
Subplate and cortical developmental disorders of cognition
Oxford University, UK
2:30 - 2:45 Jess Nithianantharajah
Genes, cognition and touchscreens
FINMH, Melbourne, Australia
2:45 - 3:00 Anthony Hannan
Mediators and modulators: mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders
FINMH, Melbourne, Australia
3:00 - 3:30 AFTERNOON TEA
Poster Session
Session 5: Animal Models
Chairs: Margaret Morris
Cathy Leamey
UNSW, Sydney, Australia
University of Sydney, Australia
3:30 - 4:00 Toru Takumi
Modeling Autism
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
4:00 - 4:15 Johanna Montgomery
How gene mutations affect synaptic activity in autism
University of Auckland, New Zealand
4:15 - 4:30 Elisa Hill-Yardin
Mind over fecal matter: neurons in the gut and autism
University of Melbourne, Australia
4:30 - 4:45 CLOSE
Speaker affiliations:
BMRI: Brain Mind Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
FINMH: The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia
NeuRA: Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia
RIKEN: Rikagaku Kenkyusho (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan
UNSW: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UTSW: University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA