FBNS 2021

Registration & Morning Tea

🕑 30 min

Welcome

🕑 5 min

Plenary 1 – Effective Public Communication

Chair: Niloufar Ansari

9:35 Dr Shane Huntington

10:05 Dr Tim Lee
🕑 60 min

Dr Shane Huntington

Dr Shane Huntington is an accomplished speaker, workshop facilitator, MC, and strategist with a passion for science and communication. He has successfully led the RRR radio science team for three decades. The show’s wildly successful #20phds20mins program is just one example of the support he has provided for young investigators to have their first positive […]

Dr Tim Lee

Dr Tim Lee is a stand-up Science Comedian. His background is biology, and he completed his Ph.D. at the University of California Davis. He spent years developing simulation and analytical models of population dynamics before he discovered that this bored him to tears. When he tried comedy for the first time the tears stopped. If […]

Speaker Session 1 – In a Nutshell

Chair: Dr Shane Huntington

Public Communication

This session is in the format of short 'radio-style' interviews. Our plenary speaker, Dr Shane Huntington, will conduct the interviews by asking each presenter engaging questions that relate to their research/scientific field. The presenter should explain their research in plain English, suitable for a public audience.

10:35 PerkinElmer

10:40 Targeting the lymphatics to treat arthritis - Alina Lam

10:45 Looking into the black box of preeclampsia - Marnie Winter

10:50 Poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazolines) and PEG: A biological comparison - James Humphries

10:55 A Cell’s Diet: Studying and Manipulating the process of cells ‘eating’ drug-loaded nanoparticles - Paula Cevaal

11:00 Targeting the hard reach – nanoantibiotics to eradicate intracellular bacteria - Santhni Subramaniam

11:05 A Metabolic Labelling Based Approach for Highly Selective Gastrointestinal Delivery - Yuen Yi Lam

11:10 Template Assisted Antibody Assembly Platform - Yingjie Hu
🕑 40 min

Session Break & PerkinElmer Breakout Room

Break & industry networking
🕑 20 min

Plenary 2 – The Art of Science Communication

Chair: Leah Wright

11:35 Dr Andrew Stapleton

12:05 Dr Hannah Wardill
🕑 60 min

Dr Andrew Stapleton

Dr. Andrew Stapleton is an expert communicator, strategist, and digital content producer. He received his PhD in chemistry from The University of Newcastle in 2010. Since then, he has been actively working as a communicator and vlogger. He works with professionals to create engaging digital content and develop content strategies that drive online engagement.

Dr Hannah Wardill

Dr Hannah Wardill is an early career researcher dedicated to ensuring people with cancer don’t just survive, but that they survive well! Since completing her PhD in 2016, Hannah has secured close to $1M to develop new methods of supporting gut health in people with cancer and predicting patient responses based on the bacteria found […]

Session Break & Lunch

🕑 25 min

Speaker Session 2 – The Science Talk Session

Chairs: Pie Huda and ANFF representative

Scientist Communication

This session is the format of 8 minutes presentation and 2 minutes Q&A by audience. The language should be suitable for communication with scientists from other fields.

13:00 Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) talk

13:05 Biologics as Delivery Vehicles for Immunotherapy - Gayathri S

13:15 The electrochemical detection of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) in whole blood using dispersible electrodes - Parisa Moazzam

13:25 Targeting Brain Cancer with Advanced Immunotherapy - Saikat Ghosh

13:35 3D Hydrogel Cultured Spheroids: an in-vitro Model for Penetration Study of Nanomedicines in Tumour Microenvironment - Niloufar Jamshidi

🕑 45 min

Session break & ANFF Breakout Room

Break & industry networking
🕑 20 min

Plenary 3 – Build meaningful relationship with industry

Chair: Paul Joyce

14:05 Dr Lee Farrand

14:35 Dr Chris Vindurampulle

🕑 60 min  

Dr Chris Vindurampulle

Dr Chris Vindurampulle is a patent and trade mark attorney with the intellectual property (IP) team in the Melbourne office of K&L Gates.   As a PhD-qualified researcher, Chris developed and patented key vaccine technology that sparked his interest in pursuing a career in intellectual property law.  As an attorney having over 12 years’ experience, […]

Dr Lee Farrand

Dr Lee Farrand is the head of Yuhan Corporation in the ANZ region. Yuhan is South Korea’s largest pharmaceutical company, with full spectrum drug development capabilities to manufacture, develop and market prescription and OTC drugs. The regional office based in Adelaide is focused on building relationships with research institutions and biotech companies throughout Australia and […]

Speaker Session 3 – Spark Tank

Chairs: Joshua Rennick and Thermo Fisher Scientific representative

Industry Communication

This session is in the format of 5 minutes presentation and 2 minutes Q&A by judges/audience. The language used should be suitable for communication with industry, and should sell your idea!

15:05 Thermo Fisher Scientific pitch and questions

15:15 Shine a light on superbugs - Muhammed Awad

15:25 A journey from nanomedicines to nanosoils - Cong Vu

15:35 A nano-lipid container to improve antibiotics - Chelsea Thorn

15:45 mRNA therapy for rare genetic brain diseases - Denzil Furtado

🕑 55 min  

Session break & Thermo Fisher Scientific Breakout Room

Afternoon tea & industry networking
🕑 20 min

Awards & Closing