Preventative Health Presentations for July to September 2005

Here are some of the recent presentations of Flagship work:

Colorectal Cancer

"Preventative Health - Colorectal Cancer Research", address by Flagship Director, Dr Richard Head, to the International Science Congress - Food and Nutrition, Malaysia, August 4 - 6 2005

“Does Food have Physiological/Health Effects?", presentation by Dr Mahinda Abeywardena, to the International Science Congress - Food and Nutrition, Malaysia, August 4 - 6 2005

The Atmospheric Environment and Health

“Optimum Exposure Fields for Epidemiology and Health Forecasting”, presentation by Bill Physick to CMIS TechFest 05, July18-19.

“The potential for forecasting health outcomes with a weather and air quality model such as AAQFS: methodology and early results”, presentation by Bill Physick to EPA South Australia,  August 3.

Encapsulation and delivery of bioactives to the colon

“Prebiotics gut microbiota and human health”, oral presentation by Ross Crittenden to the 3rd Asian Conference on Lactic Acid Bacteria, Bali, Indonesia, August 25-26

“MicroMAX® - Synbiotic microcapsules  that protect probiotic bacteria” poster presentation by Ross Crittenden, Luz Sanguansri, Rangika Weerakkody, Mary Ann Augustin to the 3rd Asian Conference on Lactic Acid Bacteria, Bali, Indonesia, August 25-26

Microencapsulation

“Opportunities for the Fats and Oils Industry in the Functional Food Arena”, an invited paper by Mary Ann Augustin and Lynne Cobiac to the PIPOC 2005  (Malaysian Palm Oil Board International Palm Oil Congress), Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, September 25-29 

Bioprospecting

“Evaulation of immune modulatory properties of selected food peptide fractions” paper presented by Louise Bennett, Ross Crittenden, Elena Khoo and Santina Forsythe to the 2005 Dairy Science World Series Conference “Functional Dairy Foods 2005”, Adelaide July 27-28.

“Rapid screening for Potential Cholesterol Lowering Peptides using Naturally-Derived Micelle Preparation” paper presentation by Chandra Kirana, Paul Rogers, Louise Bennett, Mahinda Abeywardena and Glen Patten, to the 2005 Dairy Science World Series Conference “Functional Dairy Foods 2005”, Adelaide July 27-28.

Novel Diagnostics

"New PCR Techniques in the Analysis of DNA Methylation", presentation by Peter Molloy, to an Epigenetics Workshop, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, September 16.

“Biomarker discovery and application for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer using protein microarrays”,  conference abstract by Michael Abdo, Ann Bayly, Bob Irving and Peter Hudson  to the 12th Annual Chips to Hits, Boston, United States of America; September 12 – 14.

“Assessment of protein microarray detection strategies”, conference abstract by Michael Abdo, Bob Irving and Peter Hudson to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1.

“Optimisation of Microarray Techniques in the Development of a Diagnostic Biosensor for Colorectal Cancer” conference abstract by Leigh Tay, Olan Dolezal, Richard Simpson, Peter Hudson, Michael Abdo to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1.

Statistics and Bioinformatics

“Canonical Variate Analysis and Microarrays: How many colons do we have?”, paper presenation by Harri Kiiveri, Rob Dunne, Larry LaPointe to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1

“NetRave: a novel method for constructing gene networks from microarray 

gene expression data,” poster presentation by Harri T. Kiiveri, William J Wilson*, Aloke Phatak to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1

“Evaluating gene relationship networks inferred from gene expression data,” poster presentation by Aloke Phatak, William J Wilson*, Harri T. Kiiveri, to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1

“Enhancing predicted gene interaction networks from microarray data using additional genomics data,” poster presentation by William J Wilson*, Harri T. Kiiveri, to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1

“Comparing Normalization Protocols”, Poster presentation by Rob Dunne, Glenn Stone, George Miklos, Ryszard Maleszka to the 5th Annual Meeting Australian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association, Barossa Valley, South Australia; September 29 - October 1

Health Data – Privacy Preserving analytics

“Privacy-Preserving Analytics” presentation by Christine O'Keefe, Ross Sparks and Tim Keighley,  New South Wales Health, August 30, 2005.

“Privacy-Preserving Analytics” presentation by Chris Carter and Tim Keighley, 3M, Sydney, September 16, 2005.

“Privacy-Preserving Analytics”  presentation by Christine O'Keefe, Ross Sparks and Damien McAullay, to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, September 23, 2005.

“Privacy-Preserving Analytics” presentation by Christine O'Keefe, Ross Sparks and Damien McAullay to the Inter-Governmental Privacy and Confidentiality Working Group, September 23, 2005.

Consumer Risk Perception

“Electronic tailoring of information on the basis of perceived risk and health beliefs—a method for increasing uptake of colorectal cancer screening”, a paper presented by         Ingrid Flight to the “Tailoring Health Messages: Bridging the gap between social and humanistic perspectives on health communication” conference in Ascona, Switzerland July 6-10 .

“Intersecting electronic decision support with user modelling in a web-based consumer decision aid for colorectal cancer screening” a poster presentation by Dr Cecile Paris (CSIRO ICT) on behalf of the Flagship to the 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM2005) e-Health workshop in Edinburgh July 24-29.

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