9th December 2020 (10-5:30pm Australian EDST): ANS2020 Online Conference and AGM PROGRAM
10:00‐10:15am: Prof Cliff Abraham and A/Prof Kaylene Young
ANS President and Conference Executive Chair Welcome Delegates
10:15‐10:45am: Chair – Dr Hamid Sohrabi (ANS Regional Representative for WA)
Dr Robyn Brown ‐ 2020 A.W Campbell Award Lecture
Title ‘Why do we overeat? Unravelling the neural mechanisms underlying
maladaptive eating behaviour’
10:45‐11:15am: Chair – Dr Kristin Hillman (ANS Regional Representative for NZ)
Prof Kay Double ‐ 2020 Nina Kondelos Plenary Lecture
Title: Hiding in plain sight – what does a new pathology mean for Parkinson’s disease
aetiology?
11:15‐12:15pm: Chair – Dr Ann‐Maree Vallence (Chair of ANS2020 Perth LOC)
Prof Kate Drummond – ANS2020 Eccles Plenary Lecture
Title: Quality of Life in Brain Tumour Patients ‐ Do we understand it and what can we
do about it?
12:15‐12:45pm: Lunch break / Break‐out chats
12:45‐1:15pm: Chair – A/Prof Alison Canty (ANS Regional Representative for Tasmania)
Dr Philip Ryan – 2019 A.W Campbell Award Lecture
Title: The neurocircuitry of fluid satiation
1:15‐1:45pm: Chair – Dr Nathalie Dehorter (ANS Regional Representative for ACT)
Prof Erica Fletcher – 2019 Nina Kondelos Plenary Lecture
Title: The role of microglia in regulating retinal homeostasis
1:45‐2:30pm: Chair – Mr Amr Abdeen (ANS Student Representative)
PhD student 3‐minute thesis finalists
1) Indra Choudhury, Griffith University
2) Andres Vidal‐Itriago, Macquarie University
3) Megan Bakeberg, University of Western Australia & Perron Institute
4) Anastazja Gorecki, University of Western Australia & Perron Institute
5) Sophie Mathiesen, University of Otago
6) Jessica Madden, University of Newcastle
7) Sarah Thomas Broome, University of Technology Sydney
8) Nia Lopez, University of Newcastle
9) Jessica Moretti, University of Western Australia & Perron Institute
10) Leanne Jiang, University of Western Australia & Perron Institute
2:30‐3:00pm: Tea break
ANS Annual General Meeting
3:00‐5:00pm: Chair ‐ Prof Thomas Fath (ANS Secretary)
Announcement of ANS Award recipients
Announcement of 3MT competition winners
A/Prof Jess Nithianantharajah and Dr Tobias Merson
Looking Forward to ANS2021 in Melbourne
Prof Peter Schofield
ANS President’s Closing Remarks