Monday, 13th October The 16th Australian Peptide Conference 2025
Session 2: Synthetic Technologies I
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 13th October
Chancellor 2
Chairs: Christoph Nitsche & Ratmir Derda
- Chemical Tools for Biological Discoveries - Monika Raj
- Radical Mediated Installation of 18F tags into Proteins for Dynamic PET Imaging of Neurodegeneration Biomarkers - Andew M Giltrap
- Late stage, traceless C–H functionalisation of peptides - Craig Hutton
- Engineering approaches for improving the efficacy of peptide-based drug leads - Nicole Lawrence
- Advancing ADC Technology: A Solid-Phase Platform for Cleavable Linker-Payload Synthesis - Iman Kavianinia
- From Overlooked to Essential: CADIs in Peptidomimetic Design - Tetsuo Narumi
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 13th October
Convention Centre Foyer
Session 3: Venoms
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 13th October
Chancellor 2
Chairs: Andrew Walker & Samuel Robinson
- Uncovering Additional Complexity of Snake Venoms through Structural Proteomics - Tara L Pukala
- Discovery of Stinging Nettle Neurotoxins - Thomas Durek
- Arachnid Venom Peptides as Bioinsecticide Candidates for Varroa Mite and Locust Control - Shaodong Guo
- Molecular mimicry by venom peptides - Samuel Robinson
- A New Mode of Ion Channel Modulation: Dual Pharmacophore Binding of the Gympietides to TMEM233 and NaV1.7 - Irina Vetter
- Unveiling the Vampire Bat’s Secret: Ex Vivo Insights into CGRP-Mediated Vasodilation - Jan Tytgat
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Monday, 13th October
Convention Centre Foyer
Session 4: Biosynthesis and Novel Bioactives I
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 13th October
Chancellor 2
Chair: Max Cryle
- Utilizing Bioinformatics, Biocatalysis, and Synthetic Chemistry to Access Natural Product-Inspired Peptides - Elizabeth (Betsy) I Parkinson
- ⍺-contoxin binding at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors reveals general features of peptide antagonism - Jesko Koehnke
- Developing antimicrobial peptides to combat infections - Wenyi Li
- Peptidyl epoxyketone proteasome inhibitor biosynthesis: Substrate scope and catalytic mechanism of epoxyketone synthase EpnF - Gregory L Challis
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 13th October
Convention Centre Foyer
Session 5: Towards the Clinic I
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 13th October
Chancellor 2
Chairs: Markus Muttenthaler & Aimee Horsfall
Sponsored by:
- Rational Design of Functional Knottin Libraries through Computational Sequence Generation - Paula Florez
- Potential therapeutic indications of orexin receptor modulators - Laura Jacobson
- Breaking antibacterial resistance: Octapeptin lipopeptides potentiate repurposed drugs against multidrug-resistant bacteria - Mark AT Blaskovich
- Targeting hGIIA-EGFR-vimentin interactions with cyclic peptide kesonotide: a novel strategy against Prostate cancer - Quach Truong
- Oral Hepcidin Peptidomimetics to treat iron dysregulation - Greg T Bourne
Casual Dinner
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Monday, 13th October
Chancellor 1
Sponsored by:
Poster Session 1 & Wine Tasting
7:30PM - 10:00PM
Monday, 13th October
Convention Centre Foyer
Sponsored by:
- Macrocyclic Sulfopeptide-Based LYTACs for Targeted Degradation of Chemokines - Bernardo Cavallazzi Sebold
- Venom-derived blood-brain barrier peptide shuttles - Leonardo Marcazzan
- Bio-aerogels fabricated from Tachykinin derived Ultrashort Peptides - Brody McDonald
- Structure-based design, in vitro evaluation and in vivo imaging of a novel peptidomimetic inhibiting the uPA-uPAR interaction - Esaü Vangeloven
- Prediction and identification of physicochemical determinates specific of antimicrobial and cell penetrating peptides - Ashok kumar
- Ultrasound-assisted enzymatic hydrolysis enhances bioactive peptide yield and bioactivity from common bean and pumpkin seed proteins: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-steatotic effects - Erick Huerta-Rodriguez
- Dissecting the trefoil domain folding process through directed disulfide bond formation - John Raju
- The total chemical synthesis of HCRG21, a venom-derived inhibitor of TRPV1 with therapeutic Potential - Jinwei Sun
- Development of pan-JAK inhibitor for alopecia areata (AA) - Hey Pui Carina Cheung
- Cysteine-Ferroptosis Axis in Osteoarthritis: From Proteomics to Peptide Therapeutic Design - Luxi Zheng
- Targeting Sclerostin Loop 3 with a Peptide Inhibitor - Gongli Cai
- Synthesis of Chloroalkene-Based Peptidomimetics and Their Application as Amyloid-beta Aggregation Inhibitors - Kenichi Yamamoto
- Discovery of highly stable nature-derived disulfide-rich peptide scaffolds - Rizana Azees
- Phage-encoded bismuth bicycles enable instant access to targeted bioactive peptides - Upamali Somathilake
- Assembling branched and macrocyclic peptides on proteins - Santhanalaxmi Kumaresan
- Chemo-Enzymatic Peptide Synthesis - Christopher McGee
- Developing a High-Throughput Screen for Conotoxin Agonists of the GABAB Receptor - Liam Jackson
- The innate immune mediator group IIA secreted phospholipase A2 and its inhibition by KM3 modulates lipid droplet formation in prostate cancer cells. - Monavvar Andarva
- Design and development of potent and selective C5aR2 agonists - Joshua Dent
- Non-Symmetric Cysteine Stapling in Native Peptides and Proteins - Bishvanwesha Panda
- Identifying the Binding Site of an Australian Stinging Nettle Toxin on a Novel Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Accessory Protein - Lucinda Walker
- Next-Generation Molecular Tools for Probing the Oxytocin Receptor - Monika Perisic Böhm
- Phage-derived peptides that bind NONO to target telomerase-positive cancers - Tianyi Gao
- Toward precision diagnostics in RA: exploiting the SFTI-1 scaffold for autoantibody profiling - Mingshu Zhang
- Development of chemoenzymatic methods for the synthesis of peptide epoxyketones - Urvi Modak
- The power of peptides for efficient crop protection - Annalise Taylor
- Origin and diversification of melittin-family toxins in bees - William Atherton
- Towards the Generation of Glutathione-Sensitive Linkers for Multi-Drug Antibody Drug Conjugates - Suzie M Chan
- Unlocking the Potential of Hydrazide-Based Native Chemical Ligation with a Novel Dual-Linker Solubilising Platform - Keziah Poggenpoel
- A Cancer Prodrug Activated by an Oncolytic Virus - Polly Chuanrong Sun
- Understanding the mechanism of Proline-rich antimicrobial peptides - Yujie Zhu
- Developing a novel brain-penetrating drug for appetite regulation - Isabelle Riches
- Membrane-Targeting Magainin 2-Derived Peptides as Promising Candidates Against Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infections - Tianmeng Zhang
- Peptidomimetics to inhibit the SLIT2-ROBO1 interaction as a gateway to attenuate pancreatic adenocarcinoma - Mohsen Hosseini
- Natural Defense, Model Response: Cyclotides from Bolivian Plants in C. elegans - Jose Antonio J Ruiz Machicao
- Photoswitchable peptidic modulators of Acid-Sensing Ion Channels - Nataliia Petlovana
- A High-Throughput Synthetic Evolution Platform for Developing Next-Generation Antimicrobials - Praveen Praveen
- Dissecting the tripartite interaction of pain-causing stinging nettle peptides with TMEM233 and sodium channels - Qing Xu