Thursday, 4th November 11th Asia-Pacific Congress of the International Society on Toxinology 2021

• Taxonomy in venom research: The missing specialist - Michela L Mitchell
• Development of a lateral flow assay for stratification of venom from Brazilian snake genera - Cecilie Knudsen
• Non-lethal methods open new possibilities for accessing the unique chemodiversity found in dendrobatids - Mabel Gonzalez
• Experimental and ensemble-based investigation of mechanistic action for cobra venom cytotoxin - Michelle Khai Khun Yap
• Old dog / new tricks: the pharmacological examination of snake venoms and antivenoms - Wayne C Hodgson

• Monkeying around with venom: An increased resistance of Afro-Asian primates to α-neurotoxins of sympatric cobras - Richard J Harris
• Evolution of diverse defensive polypeptide toxins in caterpillars - Andrew A. Walker
• Venomics of Australian spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) - Daniel Dashevsky
• Ecological and evolutionary venomics: How distinct ecology and evolution has shaped the venoms of India’s medically most important snakes. - Kartik Sunagar
• Ecological and evolutionary trends of toxin resistance in animals - Rebecca Tarvin

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• Exploration of inflammatory and hemostatic activities of snake venoms in monocyte-derived macrophages - Emelyn Salazar
• Study of venom from sea anemone Anthopleura dowii Verrill, 1869  - Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán
• Epidemiology and risk factors for snake bites in Colombia, 2007 - 2019. - Karen Sarmiento
• Trimeresurus albolabris snakebite treatment implications arising from ontogenetic venom comparisons of anticoagulant function, and antivenom efficacy - Lachlan A Bourke
• Investigations into the drivers of venom variation and characterisation of novel venom components from Australian scorpions - Edward Evans

• Sea anemone peptides with the Kunitz fold: molecular targets and prospects of investigation - Irina Gladkikh
• A fluorescently-tagged peptide toxin as a tool for K_V1.3 visualisation  - Dorothy C Wai
• Enabling broadly-neutralising antibodies: Venom toxin clustering and unravelling snake venom complexity - Timothy TPJ Jenkins
• Extreme differential coagulotoxic activity of Bitis viper venoms upon the vertebrate coagulation cascade. - Nicholas J Youngman
• Development of a miniaturised α-conotoxin analogue as a potent and selective inhibitor of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtype. - Richard J Clark