GSA PROGRAM  1998


WEDNESDAY JULY 8
 
7.00 - 10.00pm Mixer and registration - Wesley College


THURSDAY JULY 9
 
8.30 - 9.00 Registration - Old Geology LT


Session 1 - Old Geology LT
 
9.00 - 9.05 Welcome
Symposium: The nexus between genetics and genomics
 
Chair  John Mattick
9.05 - 9.45 Michael Ashburner  
First fruits of megabase sequencing from Drosophila: analysis of a 2.8-mb sequence from the Adh region
9.45 - 10.25 Grant R. Sutherland  
From genome mapping to disease genes
10.25 - 10.45 Gavin Huttley  
A scan for linkage disequilibrium across the human genome
10.45 - 10.5 Chairman's summary
Coffee/tea, trade displays, posters - Macleay building
11.00 - 11.40 Set up posters


Session 2a - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Neil Murray
11.40 - 12.00 P.R. England, R.A. Nichols, D.A. Briscoe and R. Frankham  
Experimental evaluation of microsatellite-based estimates of effective population size and inbreeding in bottlenecked populations
12.00 - 12.20 Neil Gemmell 
Molecular ecology of fur seals
12.20 - 12.40 Dugald J. McGlashan and Jane M. Hughes  
Patterns of genetic variation in two species of Australian freshwater fishes
12.40 - 1.00 D. Tikel, D. Blair and H.D. Marsh  
Dugong population genetics as inferred from control region sequences

Session 2b - Zoology LT
 
Chair  Margaret Byrne
11.40 - 12.00 Lindell Bromham  
Determinants of rate variation in mammalian DNA sequence evolution
12.00 - 12.20 R.N. Johnson and R.H. Crozier 
Population viscosity and multi-nest colonies in the ant Polyrhachis doddi
12.20 - 12.40 Alex Wilson, Paul Sunnucks and Dinah Hales  
Dodging extinction and breaking the rule: the generation of genetic variation in parthenogenetic aphids
12.40 - 1.00 Linda Broadhurst, David Coates and Beng Tan  
Morphological variation and allelic distribution across a hybrid zone between two forms of Geleznowia verrucosa (Rutaceae)
1.00 - 2.20 LUNCH


Session 3 - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Ross Crozier
2.20 - 2.45 Ian R. Franklin  
DNA markers, QTL mapping and the theory of junctions
2.45 - 3.10 Gerhard Moser  
Precise mapping of QTLs in intercrosses between highly divergent breeds of pigs using multiple trait analysis
3.10 - 3.35 Alan Wilton 
Disease gene mapping in dogs
3.35 - 4.00 J.A. Donald, L.J. Adams, P.B. Mitchell, S.L. Fielder, A. Rosso and P.R. Schofield 
Mapping genes for manic depression (bipolar affective disorder)
Coffee/tea, trade displays, posters - Macleay building
4.00 - 5.00 POSTER SESSION 1
5.00 - 6.00 POSTER SESSION 2
 

FRIDAY JULY 10

Session 4 - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  John McKenzie
8.45 - 9.25 Bambos Kyriacou  
Molecular evolution of circadian clock genes
9.25 - 9.50 William D. Warren, Matthew Beasley, Diane Severin and Michael McKay  
Involvement of rad21 in sister chromatid cohesion and DNA double strand break repair
9.50 - 10.15 Heidi Sutherland, David Garrick, Margot Kearns, David Martin and Emma Whitelaw  
Epigenetic effects on transgene expression in mice can be inherited through meiosis
10.15 - 10.40 Brandon Wainwright  
The involvement of the patched/hedgehog signalling pathway in genetic disease, common human cancer and developmental anomalies
Coffee/tea, trade displays, posters - Macleay building
10.40 - 11.40 POSTER SESSION 3



Session 5a - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Ary Hoffmann
11.40 - 12.00 Steven J.B. Cooper, C. Michael Bull and Ben C. Baghurst  
Do sleepy lizards sleep around? A molecular genetic test of lizard morals
12.00 - 12.20 J.A.T. Morgan  
Ribosomal DNA ITS sequences help to resolve relationships among parasite species
12.20 - 12.4 Dean M. Gilligan, Lynn M. Woodworth, Margaret E. Montgomery, David A. Briscoe and Richard Frankham  
Can fluctuating asymmetry be used to monitor inbreeding and loss of genetic variation in endangered populations?
12.40 - 1.00 Michael Francki and William Berzonsky  
Physical mapping of a single copy gene on the centromere of wheat chromosome 1B


Session 5b - Zoology LT
 
Chair  Margaret Katz
11.40 - 12.00 Shiro Akiyama, Neil J. Gemmell, Neil D. Murray and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves  
Human genetic disease associated microsatellite loci and platypus population study
12.00 - 12.20 Lynne van Herwerden and David Blair  
Multiple forms of a mitochondrial gene in individual worms
12.20 - 12.40 S. Davis, E. Catchpole, G. Fulford and R. Pech 
Models for genetic control, with application to the common carp (Cyprinus arpio)
12.40 - 1.00 David Gopurenko, Jane Hughes and Clive Keenan  
Mitochondrial DNA evidence for rapid colonisation throughout the Indo-west Pacific by the mudcrab Scylla serrata
1.00 - 2.20 LUNCH


Session 6 - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Mike Westerman
2.20 - 2.45 Simon Easteal  
Natural selection and the human mitochondrial genome
2.45 - 3.10 Rory Hope, Steven Cooper, David Wheeler, Mi-Hye Lee, Robert Holland, Andrew Gooley and Morris Goodman 
Evolution of the b-globin genes: rearranging the branches
3.10 - 3.35 Ary A. Hoffmann  
Field and laboratory heritabilities: some lessons from Drosophila
3.35 - 4.00 Paul Sunnucks, Natalie Curach, Jordan French, Dave Briscoe and Noel Tait 
Hierarchical genetic analysis of an onychophoran species
Coffee/tea, trade displays, posters - Macleay building
4.00 - 5.00 POSTER SESSION 4
5.00 - 6.00 POSTER SESSION 5
   
7.30 - 11.30 Dinner - HarbourWatch Restaurant, Pier 1, Hickson Rd, The Rocks
 



SATURDAY JULY 11

Session 7 - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Oliver Mayo
9.30 - 10.10 M.J.D. White address 
John Sved, XiuMei Liang, Mark Tanaka and Yasmine Gray  
P elements and recombination in Drosophila
10.10 - 10.40 Reinhard Bürger and Alexander Gimelfarb  
Stabilizing selection in multilocus models
Coffee, trade displays, posters - Macleay building
10.40 - 11.40 POSTER SESSION 6



Session 8 - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Chris Gillies
11.40 - 12.20  Jeff Ellis 
Molecular analysis of rust resistance specificity in flax
12.20 - 12.40 Margaret E. Katz, Gabrielle Whittle and Brian Cheetham  
Modulation of virulence by the integration of genetic elements in D. nodosus
12.40 - 1.00 Mark Tanaka, Marc Feldman, Hugh Salamon and Peter Small  
The dynamics of repeat sequences: application to the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
1.00 - 2.20 LUNCH


Session 9 - Old Geology LT
 
Chair  Jane Hughes
2.20 - 2.40 Don Colgan, Peter Eggler, Winston Ponder, Anne McLauchlan, Julie Macaranas and Sue Livingston  
Extracting phylogenetic information from noisy data: examples from the arthropods and gastropods
2.40 - 3.00 Mark Dowton  
Gene rearrangements and translocations as phylogenetic markers for ancient evolutionary relationships. Are they really so rare?
3.00 - 3.20 L.S. Jermiin  
New strategies for obtaining phylogenetic trees by maximum likelihood analysis
3.20 - 3.40 L.H. Rawlings and S.C. Donnellan  
Characterization of the control region and control region-like inserted copy in pythons
3.40 - 3.50 Smith-White eulogy and prize distribution
Coffee/tea, trade displays, posters - Macleay building
4.00 - 4.30 Dismantling of posters
4.30 - 6.00 Business meeting and drinks - Old Geology LT
 



POSTER NUMBER, SESSIONS AND TITLE
 
No Sessions  
1 1, 3 Shiro Akiyama, Neil J. Gemmell, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves and Neil D. Murray
    Molecular ecology and conservation genetics of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
2 2, 4 Xin An, Keryn Wilkes, Yemima Bastian and Marianne Frommer
    Circadian expression of the period gene in two fruit fly species with different mating time
3 3, 6 W. Arsenault, N.J. Maqbool, I.C.A. Martin, C. Moran and F.W. Nicholas
    A QTL for litter size in mice ó preliminary results
4 1, 4 N.J. Maqbool, C. Moran and F.W. Nicholas
    Further testing for a body-weight QTL on mouse chromosome 3
5 2, 3 Emma Beacham, Winston Ponder and Don Colgan 
    Molecular evolutionary genetics of the Caenogastropoda
6 1, 5 Sarah Brown, Greg Rouse, Pat Hutchings and Don Colgan
    Molecular phylogenetics of the Polychaeta
7 4, 6 Denis O'Meally and Don Colgan 
    Genetic criteria for reserve selection
8 2, 5 Mark Blacket, Carey Krajewski, Agatha Labrinidis, Brian Cambron, Steve Cooper and Michael Westerman
    Molecular systematics of Sminthopsini - a multigene approach
9 1, 3 Emma Burns 
    Molecular ecology of the broad-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides
10 2, 4 Lejla Buza and Andrew Young 
    Genetic characteristics of remnant populations of Swainsona recta (Fabaceae) 
11 3, 6 Zhenzhong Chen, Emma Forbes, Richard Newcomb, John A. McKenzie and Philip Batterham
    Molecular and genetic options for resistance to organophosphorus insecticides
12 3, 6 Jason Fair and Philip Batterham
    Syntenic linkage group shuffling: evolution of chromosome 3 in Lucilia cuprina 
13 3, 6 Kris Freebairn, John A. McKenzie and Philip Batterham
    Coadaptation of the diazinon resistance system in Lucilia cuprina
14 1, 4 Sarah Humphrey, John A. McKenzie and Phil Batterham
    Cytochrome P450s and insecticide resistance in the Australian sheep blowfly
15 2, 3 Janet L. Yen, Philip Batterham and John A. McKenzie
    Genotypically dependent effects of cyromazine on reproduction and offspring development in the Australian sheep blowfly
16 1, 5 Steve Chenoweth and Jane Hughes
    Historical demography confounds inferences of contemporary population structure in the Indo-Pacific threadfin salmon, Polynemus sheridani
17 4, 6 Lyn Cook 
    Extreme length polymorphism of 18s rDNA within the scale insects 
18 2, 5 Sasha N. Curthoys and Marianne Frommer
    Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the taxonomy of tephritid fruit flies (subfamily Dacinae)
19 1, 3 Mark Dowton and Andrew D. Austin
    The evolution of parasitic strategies among the microgastroid Hymenoptera: evidence from multiple genes and morphology
20 2, 4 Karen B. Firestone
    The ESU Status of Dasyurus maculatus, an endangered carnivorous marsupial
21 3, 6 W.D. Flood, T. Zhang, F.D. Costantini and A. Ruvinsky
    Presence of IAP determines the active state of the Axin (Fused) gene in mice
22 1, 4 V.S. Fraser, B. Kaufmann, B.P. Oldroyd and R.H. Crozier
    Genetic influence on caste in the ant Camponotus consobrinus
23 2, 3 G.A. Harrison, D.W. Cooper and E.M. Deane
    Genomic organisation of the tumour necrosis factor gene cluster in a marsupial (Macropus eugenii)
24 1, 5 Genevieve Herbert, Simon Easteal, Stephen J. O'Brien and Leslie A. Lyons
    The relative rate of DNA evolution in primates: new evidence from cats 
25 4, 6 Margaret Heslewood and Peter Baverstock
    Molecular evolution in Australian passerine birds
26 1, 3 Gavin Hinten and Peter Baverstock
    Evolutionary genetics of island populations of the Australian bush rat, Rattus fuscipes greyii, using microsatellite DNA analysis
27 2, 5 Ian Hughes, Iain East, and Daniel Sackey
    Polymorphism in Nramp gene and resistance to Johneís disease in ruminants
28 1, 3 Ian Hughes and Edith Hampson
    Hemeralopia (day blindness) in Alaskan Malamute dogs
29 2, 4 M. Montes-Castillo and I.P. Hughes
    Genotype by environment interaction for milk yield in Australian Holstein dairy cattle
30 3, 6 Sarah Jordan and Lynette McLean 
    Living with a genetic disorder 
31 1, 4 S.A. Kayis, P.C. Thomson and F.W. Nicholas
    A Poisson GLM application to QTL analysis of discrete backcross data using the E-M algorithm
32 2, 3 W.Y.N. Man and F.W. Nicholas
    Pedigree analysis of Australian thoroughbreds
33 1, 5 I. Tammen, H.W. Raadsma, R.W. Cook and F.W. Nicholas
    Hereditary zinc deficiency in Angus and Holstein-Friesian cattle: a homozygosity mapping approach for the localisation of the causative gene 
34 4, 6 Mark Kellett, Gawain McColl and Stephen W. McKechnie
    Hsp68 variation in the genus Drosophila 
35 2, 5  Helena Kojevnikoff, Jan Cook, Graham C. Webb and Cynthia D.K. Bottema
    A novel Bovidae interspersed DNA repeat isolated from sheep
36 2, 5 Jianze Zheng, Graham C. Webb, Helena Kojevnikoff and Cynthia D.K. Bottema
    Localisation of centromeric satellite sequences in cattle Robertsonian translocations
37 1, 3 J.H. Lee, W. Zhang, Y. Chen, L.A. Lyons, A. Robic and C. Moran
    Comparative porcine gene mapping in relation to human chromosomes 9, 10, 20 and 22
38 2, 4 S. Lee, G. Moser, Y. Chen, E. Müller, H. Geldermann and C. Moran
    QTL mapping on chromosome 2 in pigs using F2 families from Meishan, Piétrain and Wild Boar
39 3, 6 Callum A. Mack and Margaret E. Katz
    Analysis of regulatory sequences for multiple environmental signals using reporter gene fusions
40 1, 4  P. Maheswaran, J.A. Sved, M. Frommer and A. Meats
    Production of a preliminary genetic sexing strain in the Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni
41 2, 3 Jing-Ting Zhao, Marianne Frommer and John Sved
    Genetic and physical chromosome maps of the Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni
42 1, 5 Mary McPhillips, David Mowat, Cliff Meldrum, Allan D. Spigelman and Rodney J. Scott
    Genetic analysis of the LKB1 gene in a large Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome family 
43 4, 6 Elisa Mokany and Alan Wilton
    Collie Eye Anomaly, a dog congenital defect
44 2, 5 Alan Wilton, David Steward and Katina Zafiris
    Molecular comparison of Australian dingo and domestic dog
45 1, 3 Valerie B. Morris
    Homologous structures, homologous genes: where's the constraint?
46 2, 4 Kim E. Nolan and Ray J. Rose 
    The use of an isogenic seed line and differential display to search for the genes responsible for plant regeneration via somatic embryogenesis in the model legume, Medicago truncatula 
47 3, 6 Tania Oh, Jenny Saleeba, Ben Oldroyd and Tim Littlejohn
    Optimal gene/sequence combinations for determining phylogeny from public sequence databases 
48 1, 4 June Roberts-Thomson, Rodney Scott and Barry Boettcher 
    The HRAS1 minisatellite in an Aboriginal Australian population 
49 2, 3 Bruce C. Robertson, David M. Lambert and Ed O. Minot 
    Low genetic variation at microsatellite loci in a critically endangered New Zealand parrot
50 1, 5 K. Parker, G. Gaskell, D. Crisafulli and K.A. Raphael 
    A junction fragment from an insertion mutation in the mouse shows homology to the tlm oncogene
51 4, 6 Jennifer L. Ross
    Protecting biotechnology related inventions
52 2, 5 Jenny Saleeba, Kinnie Ho, Kathie Downs, Bruce R. Lyon and Murray Henwood
    Systematics of Astrotricha
53 1, 3 Markus Beck, Gitta Siekmann, Heidrun Lorenz, Ulrich Theopold and Otto Schmidt
    Molecular genetics of host manipulation and competition in an insect parasitoid host interaction
54 2, 4 Jennifer Seddon and Peter Baverstock
    Genetic variation on islands: Mhc polymorphism in populations of the Australian bush rat 
55 3, 6 D.E. Sharkey and W.B. Sherwin
    Understanding the social organisation of koalas using molecular methods 
56 1, 4 Deborah C.A. Shearman and Marianne Frommer
    Sex-specific genes of Bactrocera tryoni
57 2, 3 Lisa Robson and Ellie Smith
    The CGH (Comparative Genomic Hybridisation) experience of an oncology cytogenetics laboratory
58 1, 5 Graham J. Thompson and Ross H. Crozier
    Phylogenetic analysis of Australian drywood termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) based on nucleotide sequence from two mitochondrial DNA genes
59 4, 6 Catherine Turney, John Sved and Marianne Frommer
    Multiple representatives of the mariner family of transposable elements in the tephritid fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni
60 2, 5 M.J. Wakefield and J.A.M. Graves
    Transfection of tammar wallaby fibroblasts
61 1, 3 David Wheeler, Rory Hope, Steven Cooper, Robert Holland,Andrew Gooley and Morris Goodman
    Characterisation of w-globin in a marsupial supports a new model for b-globin gene evolution
62 2, 4 G.Whitington and P. Whitington
    Evolution of neural development in the arthropods: a molecular approach
63 3, 6 Tomasz M. Wilanowski and John B. Gibson
    Evidence of the retrotranscriptional origin of the Gpdh gene in the honey bee Apis mellifera.
64 1, 4 Jodie Young, Carey Krajewski, Steve Donnellan and Michael Westerman
    Molecular evolution in the carnivorous marsupial genus Myoictis 
 



SUNDAY JULY 12

Stephen Roberts LT, University of Sydney
 
9.00 - 5.30 Joint symposium with the Society for Conservation Biology
Dedicated to Sir Otto H. Frankel, founder of Conservation Genetics
 
Session 1  
Chair  Dick Frankham
9.00 - 9.05  Welcome and Dedication 
9.05 - 9.30  I.R. Franklin 
The 50/500 rule revisited
9.30 - 9.55  D. Woodruff 
Monitoring genetic erosion in isolated populations
9.55 - 10.20  R. Peakall  
Exceptionally low genetic diversity in an ancient relic, the Wollemi Pine: implications for conservation theory and practice
10.20 - 10.45  G.P. Zegers, M.A. Sanjayan, K.K. Moran, K. Crooks and M.E. Soulé  
The Valley Pocket Gopher: a system to study fitness correlates and genetic variability in nature
10.45 - 11.20  Coffee/tea break
 

Session 2
 
Chair  Steve Hopper
11.20 - 11.45  P. Hedrick and S. Kalinowski  
Inbreeding depression in endangered species, examples from Gila topminnows, Mexican wolves, and Speke's gazelles
11.45 - 12.10  G.M. Mace, S. Christie, J. Wilcken and S. Williams 
Inbreeding in pedigreed populations of tigers and racehorses
12.10 - 12.35  J. Wilcken 
Inbreeding and longevity: the cost of inbreeding revisited
12.35 - 1.00  R.C. Lacy  
Partitioning additive, dominance, epistatic and maternal effects on reproductive performance in crosses between subspecies of Peromyscus polionotus mice
1.00 - 2.00 LUNCH

Session 3
 
Chair  Tony Brown
2.00 - 2.25 B.A. Houlden, B.H. Costello, D. Sharkey, E.V. Fowler, W.B. Sherwin, A. Meltzer, W. Ellis, F. Carrick, P.R. Baverstock and M.S. Elphinstone 
Phylogeographic differentiation in the mitochondrial control region in the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus (Goldfuss, 1817), reveals a species comprising a single Evolutionarily Significant Unit and multiple Management Units
2.25 - 2.50  B. Taylor, S. Chivers and A. Dizon  
Estimating power when using genetic data to define management units
2.50 - 3.15  R. Crozier  
Conservation as the preservation of coding information content: phylogeny and the preservation of genetic diversity
3.15 - 3.40  W. Sherwin, A. Brown, A. Young, J. Burdon, L. Christidis, G. Clarke and D. Coates  
State of the environment genetic indicators
3.40 - 4.15  Coffee/tea break
 

Session 4
 
Chair  Steve Donellan
4.15 - 4.40  K. Ralls, J.D. Ballou and R. Frankham  
Genetic management of chondrodystropy in California condors
4.40 - 5.05  M. MacDonald, P. Myroniuk, J. Seebeck and N. Murray 
How well can captive breeding and reintroduction rescue a wild gene pool? An empirical test with the Eastern Barred Bandicoot
5.05 - 5.30  S. M. Brown and B. A. Houlden  
Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite variability in a founder population of black rhinocerosos (Diceros bicornis)
 



MONDAY JULY 13

Macquarie University E7BT4
 
9.00 - 3.15 Joint symposium with the Society for Conservation Biology (continued)

Session 5
 
Chair  David Briscoe
9.00 - 9.25  J.D. Ballou  
Distribution of genetic load among founders of captive populations
9.25 - 9.50  R. Frankham, M.E. Montgomery, L.M. Woodworth, S. Margan and D.A. Briscoe  
Rapid genetic deterioration in captivity: causes and implications
9.50 - 10.15  M. Eldridge and J. King 
Genetic factors and the extinction proneness of small populations
10.15 - 10.40 B.C. Congdon, J.F. Piatt, K. Martin and V.L. Friesen 
Intron variation in marbled murrelets: new genetic tools for old ecological problems
10.40 - 11.15  Coffee/tea break

Session 6
 
Chair  Andrea Taylor
11.15 - 11.40  F. Allendorf  
Application of genetics in the conservation of salmonid fish
11.40 - 12.05  E.E. Neilsen, M.M.Hansen and V. Loeschcke 
Genetic variation in time and space: microsatellite analysis of extinct and extant populations of Atlantic salmon
12.05 - 12.30  D. Coates and M. Byrne 
Population phylogeny, genetic structure and the mating system of endangered Lambertia orbifolia (Proteaceae): implications for conservation
12.30 - 12.55  S. Haig, T. D. Mullins 
Metapopulation genetics and status listing in spotted owls
12.55 - 2.00 LUNCH

Session 7
 
Chair  Des Cooper
2.00 - 2.25  S. Jarvi  
The MHC: application to conservation efforts in cranes and Hawaiian honeycreepers
2.25 - 2.50  R. Fleischer 
An evaluation of the definitions and rationales for evolutionary significant units
2.50 - 3.15  R. Close  
Taxonomy and populations structure in rock wallabies: conservation implications
3.15 - 3.30  Coffee/tea break
3.30 - 4.30  Visit to Macquarie University marsupial colonies]
 

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