CRYOZ 2025
November 17-18, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, NSW
Conference
Day 1 | 17 November 2025
07:30 – 08:45 Registration and Arrival Coffee
08:45 – 08:50 Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Session 1 – Frontiers in Cryo-Electron Microscopy
08:50 – 09:20 Keynote – Dr Alessandro Costa
The Francis Crick Institute
09:20 – 09:35 Dr. Winnie Tan
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
09:35 – 09:50 Dr. Nick Ariotti
University of Queensland
09:50 – 10: 05 Dr. Hongyi Xu
Australian National University
10:05 – 10:20 Dr. Rhys Grinter
University of Melbourne
10:20 – 10:35 Dr. Nicholas Kirk
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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10:35 – 11:00 Morning Tea
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Session 2 – Cryo-Electron Tomography
11:00 – 11:30 Keynote – Dr. Wioleta Dudka
EMBL
11:30 – 11:45 Dr. Hamish Brown
University of Melbourne
11:45 – 12:00 Salakshmi Velamoor
Monash University
12:00 – 12:15 Jiwon Lee
Australian National University
12:15 – 12:30 Dr. Fabian Munder
Monash University
12:30 – 12:45 Dr. Matthew Johnson
University of Melbourne
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12:45 – 13:35 Lunch
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Session 3 – Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy #1
13:35 – 14:05 Keynote – Dr. Alisa Glukhova
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
14:05 – 14:20 A/Prof. Michael Landsberg
University of Queensland
14:20 – 14:35 Prof. Joel Mackay
University of Sydney
14:35 – 14:50 Sainath Polepalli
Indian Institute of Science
14:50 – 15:05 Lucy Fitschen
University of Wollongong
15:05 – 15:20 Riya Joseph
University of Melbourne
15:20 – 15:35 Crystall Swarbrick
Charles Sturt University
15:35 – 15:50 Raphael Caballes
University of New South Wales
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15:50 – 16:10 Afternoon Tea
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Session 4 – Emerging Structural Biology Leaders #1
16:10 – 16:25 Dr. Benjamin Gully
ONJCRI
16:25 – 16:40 Dr. Rachel North
University of Sydney
16:40 – 16:55 Dr. Jacob Lewis
University of Wollongong
16:55 – 17:10 Dr. Charles Bayly-Jones
Monash University
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Poster Session
17:10 – 18:30 Poster Session and Refreshments
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18:30 – 22:30 Conference Dinner
Day 2 | 18 November 2025
08:15 – 08:45 Coffee
08:45 – 08:50 Opening Remarks
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Session 5 – Advances in Cryo-EM and Cryo-ET Methods and Workflows
08:50 – 09:20 Keynote – Dr. Jose Luis Vilas
CNB-CSIC
09:20 – 09:35 Mihin Perera
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
09:35 – 09:50 Dr. Christy Ying
Monash University
09:50 – 10:05 Dr. Xavier Heiligen
CryoCapCell
10:05 – 10:20 Dr. Yufeng Zhao
University of Wollongong
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10:20 – 10:45 Morning Tea
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Session 6 – Single Particle Cryo-Electron Microscopy #2
10:45 – 11:15 Keynote – Prof. Gabriel Lander
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11:15 – 11:30 Dr. Lachlan Adamson
University of Sydney
11:30 – 11:45 Eric Cheng
Thermo Fisher Scientific
11:45 – 12:00 Dr. Carus Lau
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
12:00 – 12:15 Muhammad Zahir
University of Wollongong
12:15 – 12:30 Irene Antony
University of Canterbury
12:30 – 12:45 Xiaoqi Qian
University of Queensland
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12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
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13:00 – 14:00 Live Remote Demonstration by JEOL
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Session – CryOZ Special Interest Group AGM
14:00 – 14:30
Session 7 – Emerging Structural Biology Leaders #2
14:30 – 14:45 Dr. Jennifer Baker
University of Wollongong
14:45 – 15:00 Dr. Emily Furlong
Australian National University
15:00 – 15:15 A/Prof. Gavin Knott
Monash University
15:15 – 15:30 Dr. Aidan Grosas
University of Wollongong
15:30 – 15:55 Afternoon Tea
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Session 8 – Facilities Discussion & Close.
15:55 – 16:55 Facilities Discussion
16:55 – 17:15 Awards & Symposium close
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