Sunday, 15th February

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12:00PM - 6:00PM

Mantra Lorne Lobby

1:45PM - 2:00PM

Sunday, 15th February

Heritage Ballroom

2:00PM - 3:10PM

Sunday, 15th February

Heritage Ballroom

Perturbing cellular pathways with pathogenic effector proteins - Mikko Taipale
Abstract title to follow - Jose Polo

3:10PM - 3:50PM

Sunday, 15th February

Convention Centre

3:50PM - 5:00PM

Sunday, 15th February

Heritage Ballroom

Evolution and genome diversity in Tasmanian devil transmissible cancers - Elizabeth Murchison
African genomes – insights into human history and health - Vanessa Hayes

5:00PM - 5:10PM

Sunday, 15th February

Heritage Ballroom

5:10PM - 6:00PM

Sunday, 15th February

Heritage Ballroom

6:00PM - 8:00PM

Sunday, 15th February

Lorne Common (Footy Oval)

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Sunday, 15th February

Convention Centre

Transcriptional repression of endogenous retroviral elements in human B cells - Cindy Shen
Development of antisense therapeutics for psoriasis - Sulev Koks
An Integrative Multiomics Approach to Characterise Novel Transcripts Underlying the Maintenance of Pluripotency and Cellular Differentiation - Lars Pennings
Epigenetic Rewiring of Epithelial Plasticity in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Reshapes the Immune Microenvironment. - Chee Wai Wong
Intrinsically disordered regions and their importance in SET-9 and SET-26 - Jeremy Lins
Unravel the role of nucleic binding ability of the epigenetic regulator SMCHD1 - Ruifeng Hu
Stepping towards the silencing: how Ep400 regulates the timely onset of Xist and Xi establishment in female X chromosome inactivation - Boya Zhang
Visualising endogenous gene expression dynamics - Bailey BHM Hiles-Murison
KLF3 is required for normal CD8+ T cell development - Holly Adams
MMBWAP: Macquarie university Motor neuron – Bioinformatics Whole genome Analysis Pipeline - Andrew N Smith
Are your antibodies cheating on their binding partners? Screening antibody specificity in CUT&Tag - Leighton S Ditchburn
Development of a reproducible Nextflow pipeline for somatic variant detection in high-depth whole-genome sequencing of neurodegenerative disease - Kelly L Williams
Genome-wide CRISPR-KO library screen reveals ribosome biogenesis as a genetic vulnerability in ARID1A-mutant ovarian clear cell carcinoma. - Tali S Skipper
Discovery of a conserved program of shared neural-endocrine microexon splicing regulated by SRRM3/4 - Annelies Hardiman
Leveraging alphafold-multimer to investigate potential A20 protein conformational changes arising from protein-protein interactions - Haeyam Taiy
A genetic modifier screen supports dispersed signalling in thermal responses of plants. - Ramya Ganesan
Beyond weight loss – epigenetic memory and weight cycling after semaglutide treatment - Kate Melrose
A window into the past: looking at past chromatin states using EpiTracer - Fabian Takacs
Subcellular proteomic networks underlying acute and chronic exercise responses in human skeletal muscle - Elizabeth Reisman
Characterising mitochondrial haplogroups and clinical features in Australian sporadic motor neuron disease - Kelly Williams
Quantification of bulk RNA modifications in yeast and human cells using mass spectrometry. - Vita Levina
Pinpointing Schizophrenia Mechanisms with Isoform-Resolved Analyses in the Developing Human Brain - Mitchell Hodgson
Transcriptomic signatures and entropy dynamics of human ageing - Yonghui Wang
Sex specific effects of ageing and exercise on androgen and estrogen receptor activity - Rushali Kulllachanda Aiyanna
Meta-analysis of substantia nigra transcriptomic sex differences in association with Parkinson’s disease - Shihan Mr Zhang
Assessing Kolmogorov-Arnold networks for single-cell gene expression analysis - Sandeep Santhosh Kumar
Investigating X-inactivation escape in immune cells of female lupus patients using long-read single-cell sequencing - Sara Berent
H3K4me3 disruption in the C. elegans germline - Ellie Incoll
Investigating variation in the protein-coding genome of a variable immune-deficient cohort - James Lancaster
Is Iron a novel regulator of SRY in Parkinson’s disease? - Malack Abuelbashar
Revealing Master Transcription Factor Networks Driving Neuroendocrine-like Reprogramming in Prostate Cancer - Tianjun TZ Zhang
Harnessing drug-induced epigenetic memory for effective sequential therapy in AML - Grace Dobbs
Benchmarking long-read fusion detection across tools and technologies - Ryley Dorney
Functional genomics screening of human transcription factors reveals mechanisms of tumour immune evasion - Maede Salehi
Investigating the structural basis for the interaction between the chromatin remodeler CHD4 and the BET-bromodomain proteins. - Andrea Daners
Investigating the mechanism and function of unstable X chromosome inactivation in female-biased autoimmune disorders - Alice Steel
Xist rna dynamics reveal flexible silencing in B cell maturation and implications for x-linked autoimmunity. - Karina KP Pazaky
Accurate detection of small non-coding RNAs using NEBNext® Low-bias Small RNA Library Prep Kit - Tiffany Pang
A primate-specific long non-coding RNA gene from GWAS as a drug target in type 2 diabetes and obesity: preliminary confirmation of safety, non-toxicity, and e@icacy in vivo in a nonhuman primate model - Leonard Lipovich
Proline-adjacent Phosphosites on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Histone Demethylase Rph1p are Salt Stress Responsive and Important for Cell Growth Under Salt Stress - Nicola Karakatsanis
Benchmarking single-cell transcriptomes and immune repertoires across technologies - Cathal King
Mapping Transcription Factor Search Dynamics with Pair Correlation Microscopy - Julissa Sanchez-Velasquez
Dissecting the Mechanism of DNA Protection by the Tardigrade Dsup Protein in Mammalian Chromatin - Joaquin Hinojosa Soto
Systematic profiling of chromatin factor expression and dependency across normal and malignant cells - James The
Epigenetic Regulation of Stress-adaptive Survival in AML. - Dhammini Ekanayake
Investigating transcript diversity as a driver of melanoma progression and metastasis using nanopore long-read RNA sequencing - Jun Yao Teow
Comprehensive Evaluation of ACMG/AMP-based Variant Classification Tools - Tohid Ghasemnejad
Phased Epigenomes: Haplotype-Specific Regulation in Hybrid Mouse Immune Cells - Hannah D Coughlan
Feeding the Future: Parental Time-Restricted Diets Remodel Offspring Brain Epigenetics - Thiruma V Arumugam
Revealing the role of circRNA in pulmonary hypertension - Benjamin L Atchison
Investigating the genotype dependence of viral infection and immune phenotypes using genetically diverse human cell libraries - Steven M Heaton
Exploring the genome of immune memory in four dimensions - Timothy Johanson
Dissecting the genetic consequences of non-coding autoimmune risk variants in primary B cells - Jeralyn Wen Hui Ching
Mass spectrometry-based sequencing approaches to detect DNA and RNA modifications - Enzo Huang
Speckled Protein 140 (SP140) binds non-methylated gene promoters via its SAND domain. - Gabrielle R White
Modelling DNA demethylation dynamics during B cell maturation - Annelise Quig
Investigating the heterogeneity of acute myeloid leukaemia response to different classes of therapy using lineage tracing. - Daniel Neville
Dosage-dependent activation of the endothelial gene expression program in human ES-cell derived myeloid precursor cells by the leukaemic oncoprotein RUNX1-ETO - Constanze Bonifer
Modelling Brpf1-associated neurodevelopmental disorders in mice and trialling treatments - Sophie TB Morgan
Embryonic stem cell factors DPPA2/4 facilitate poised chromatin states in non-small cell lung cancer - Janith Seneviratne
Dual fluorescence detection system for multi-functional analysis of 3’ UTRs - Kara Henry-Cocks
Comprehensive analysis of the epigenetic landscape in ageing CD8⁺ T cells - Minh Anh (Morgan) MB Bui
AAGGG repeat expansions trigger RFC1-independent synaptic dysregulation in human CANVAS neurons - Peter Todd
FMRpolyG and CGG repeat RNA synergistically induce neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in FXTAS model systems. - Peter Todd
Investigating the regulatory roles of microRNA clusters in neuroblastoma development - Regina Belen P Callanta
Genome-wide CRISPRa screen identifies host factors that enhance mRNA-LNP efficacy - Teleri Clark
limpa powers quantitative pulldown proteomics analysis for cancer epigenetics - Mengbo Li
Differentiation of IPS cells into fibroblasts to validate gene targets for Dupuytren’s Contracture - Muhammad Ahmed
Towards re-engineering development in vivo - Marcus Heisler
Construction of the first plant artificial chromosome (PAC) - James Lloyd

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Sunday, 15th February 47th Lorne Genome Conference 2026

Registration Desk Open

Conference Welcome & Acknowledgement of Country

Session 1: Functional Genomics

Afternoon Tea

Session 2: Evolution

Mid-Career Awards Introduction

Session 3: Mid-Career Award Presentations

Welcome Function

Poster Session 1