Cairns, Australia 2017
12th Annual Meeting, October 12th - 14th
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Cairns, Queensland
GEoPD members only12:00 City Tour of Cairns 18:00 Welcome Reception Pool Deck, Pullman International Hotel -
Pullman International Hotel, Cairns
GEoPD members only8:00 Registration 8:30 Opening of GeoPD Consortium Meeting Bluewater 1 Room 9:00 Session 1: Ongoing GEoPD Projects 10:30 Morning Tea 11:00 Session 2: Datablitz Presentations 13:00 Lunch - poster presentations Exhibition Area 14:00 Session 2: Datablitz Presentations Continues 15:30 Afternoon Tea 16:00 Session3: IPDGC Collaboration 16:30 Session4: New Project Proposals 18:30 Steering Committee Dinner -
"Science to Conquer Parkinson's Symposium", Parkinson's Queensland
Open to All Registrants8:00 Registration 8:30 Symposium Opening Event Prof. George Mellick 9:30 Session 1: Therapeutic Horizons "Amyloid Beta and Drug Discovery in Alzheimers - are there lessons for Parkinson's?" Prof. Colin Masters, University of Melbourne "Current Clinic Trial Efforts in Parkinson's" Dr. Richard Wyse, Cure Parkinson's Trust UK "Advances in Neurosurgery for Neurodegenerative disease" Prof. Peter Silburn, University of Queensland 10:30 Morning Tea 11:00 Session 2: Biomarkers, Benchmarking and other Challenges "Genetic Analysis and the Clinician - using genetic analysis to guide therapy" Prof. Christine Klein, University of Luebeck Germany "The Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle Project" Prof. Ashley Bush, Florey Institute 13:00 Lunch (Exhibitors and Poster Session) 14:00 Session 3: Cutting Edge Primary Research "Establishing a multi-disciplinary approach linking the clinic to research" Prof. Rejko Krueger, University of Luxembourg "Advances in complex genetic analysis - methylation and exposures" Dr. Jake Gratton, University of Queensland 15:30 Afternoon Tea 16:00 Session 3 Continues "Protein Trafficking in Neurodegenerative Diseases" Prof. Rohan Teasdale, University of Queensland "Blood biomarkers for Parkinson's" Prof. Antony Cooper, Garvan Institute 18:00 "The James Parkinson" - Bicentenary Oration "Parkinson’s disease – personalized, precision medicine from 20 years of genetic insight" Prof. Matt Farrer, CSO of Neurocode, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia 19:30 Symposium Dinner -
Parkinson's Queensland Members & Support Groups Forum
Open to GeoPD members and PQI members and supporters8:30 Registration Pullman International Hotel Cairns, Queensland (Bluewater Rooms 1) 9:00 Opening and Welcome Prof. George Mellick 9:30 Science Summary of Interesting Highlights from the Forum and how this impacts on people living with Parkinson's Various local presenters 11:00 Parkinson's Queensland Strategic Plan - Towards 2020 13:00 Lunch with the President & Meeting Close Tour opportunities (Great Barrier Reef, Cairns Hinterland, Rainforest Tour, etc.)