Haematology
Tuesday, 14 October 2008 11:00 - 12:30, Auditorium
| Chair | Raymond John Dauer | Austin Pathology |
Identification of a new family of proteins regulating blood clotting - Role for Dok2 in regulating platelet function
Dr Sascha Hughan graduated from Monash University with a BA/BSc(Hons) degree and a PhD in haematology. She accepted a postdoctoral position at Oxford University, and later at the University of Birmingham. In 2003, Sascha was awarded a prestigious CJ Martin Fellowship and returned to Australia, where she examines platelet activation. |
Mechanisms of Thrombus Stability and Growth
A/Prof Denise Jackson, B. App. Sc., FAIMS, PhD, is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow of the Burnet Institute at Austin and heads the Immunoreceptor Laboratory. She has undertaken new and insightful studies of immunoreceptors at many levels, form their initial discovery, through genetic, functional and structural studies, to their use as possible therapeutic entities, culminating in the defining of the crucial role of inhibitory co-receptors and tetraspanins in inflammation and thrombosis. |
Platelet Survival In Vivo and the Role of the Bcl-2 Protein Family
Dr Kylie Mason is a clinical and laboratory Haematologist at Royal Melbourne Hospital and a post-doctoral fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Her research interests focus on the role of apoptosis in Haematology; in particular malignant lymphoproliferative disorders and the blood cell, platelets. |