Past meetings
Past Meetings
The Venoms to Drugs Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of high level research leading to the development of pharmacological tools and novel drugs from the venoms of cone snails, scorpions, spiders, snakes and other species.
Inaugural Conference- From Venoms to Drugs - Heron Island, Australia, August 1998
2nd Venoms to Drugs - Heron Island, Australia, July 2002
3rd Venoms to Drugs - Heron Island, Australia, 28th Aug - 2nd September, 2005
4th Venoms to Drugs - Heron Island, Australia, 15th - 20th May, 2011
5th Venoms to Drugs - Mantra on Salt Beach, Australia, 19th - 24th October, 2014
6th Venoms to Drugs - Peppers Noosa Resort and Villas, Australia, 9-14 October, 2017
7th Venoms to Drugs - Day Dream Island Resort, Whitsundays, Australia, 15-19 March, 2021
Keynote Speakers
2021
Professor Nicholas Casewell
UK
Professor R George Chandy
Singapore
Professor Sebastien Dutertre
France
Professor Markus Muttenthaler
Austria
Professor Tom Muir
USA
Dr Eivind Undheim
Norway
Professor Ratmir Derda
Canada
Professor Manuel Jimenez-Tenorio
Spain
Professor Jan Tytgat
Belgium
Dr Tina Schroeder
USA
Professor Manjunatha Kini
Singapore
Irina Vetter
Australia
Sonia Troeira Henriques
Australia
Richard Payne
Australia
Mehdi Mobli
Australia
David Craik
Australia
Andrew Walker
Australia
Evelyne Deplazes
Australia
Lachlan Rash
Australia
David Adams
Australia
Mac Christie
Australia
2017
Professor David Adams
Australia
Associate Professor Frank Bosmans
USA
Associate ProfessorÊStuart Brierley
Australia
Professor Brian Chait
USA
Dr Chien-Chang Chen
Taiwan
Professor MacDonald Christie
Australia
Dr Richard Clark
Australia
Professor Norelle Daly
Australia
Professor Angela Dulhunty
Australia
Professor Robert J French
Canada
Associate Professor Bryan Fry
Australia
Professor Igor Kasheverov
Russia
Professor Kini R Manjunatha
Singapore
Professor J. Michael McIntosh
USA
Dr Les Miranda
USA
Professor Ray Norton
Australia
Professor James M Olson
USA
Dr Toby Passioura
Japan
Dr Peter Prentis
Australia
Dr Christina Schroeder
Australia
Dr Irina Vetter
Australia
Professor James Whisstock
Australia
Professor Gerald W. Zamponi
Canada
2014
Professor Emmanuel Bourinet
France
Dr Stuart Brierley
Australia
Professor Brian Chait
USA
Professor Arthur Christopoulos
Australia
Professor Jennifer Cochran
USA
Professor Mary Collins
Australia
Professor Annette Dolphin
England
Dr Sebastien Dutertre
Australia
Professor Bryan Fry
Australia
Professor Ray Norton
Australia
Professor Baldomero Olivera
USA
Dr Mike Pennington
USA
Professor Anthony Purcell
Australia
Dr Jefferson Revell
England
Professor Victor Tsetlin
Russia
Dr Irina Vetter
Australia
2011
Associate Professor Kathy Belov
Australia
Associate Professor Greta Binford USA
Professor Juan Calvete
Spain
Professor David Craik
Australia
Associate Professor Bryan Fry
Australia
Professor Wayne Hodgson
Australia
Dr Stephan Kellenberger
Switzerland
Professor R Manjunatha Kini
Singapore
Professor Martin Lavin
Australia
Professor Richard Lewis
Australia
Dr John L McIntyre
USA
Professor Ray Norton
Australia
Dr Daniel Obrecht
Switzerland
Professor Baldomero Olivera
USA
Dr Mike Pennington
USA
Dr Birgit Priest
USA
Dr Reto Stocklin
Switzerland
Dr Palmer Taylor
USA
Dr Alan Wickenden
USA
2005
Professor Brian Chait
USA
Associate Professor Wayne Hodgson Australia
Professor George Chandy
USA
Dr Chuck Luetje
USA
Professor Ian Smith
Australia
Dr Jim Eisenach
USA
Professor Kenton Swartz
USA
Dr Jamie Vandenberg
Australia
Professor Sujit Sikdar
India
Professor Perry Bartlett Australia
Professor Glenn King
USA
Professor MacDonald Christie
Australia
Dr Roger Drinkwater
Australia
2002
Professor Toto Olivera
USA
Professor David Craik
Australia
Professor Daniel Bertrand
Switzerland
Professor Walter Stuhmer
Germany
Professor Gerald Zamponi
Canada
Professor Robert French
Canada
Professor Manjunatha Kini
Singapore
Professor Peter Gage
Australia
Professor Jan Tytgat
Belgium
Professor Andre Menez
France
Professor Glenn King
USA
1998
Professor Toto Olivera
USA
Dr George Miljanich
USA
Dr Mike Rafferty
USA
Professor Walter Stuhmer
Germany
Professor Mike McIntosh
USA
Professor Kazuki Sato
Japan
Professor David Adams
Australia
Dr Alan Harvey
UK
Dr Ray Norton
Australia
Dr Steve Kent
USA
Dr Andre Menez
France
Dr Alan Robertson
Australia
