Previous Events

2-6 December 2013
The University of Adelaide

The scene was set with an introductory lecture ‘Bioinformatics before, during and after the era of genomics’ given by Terry Speed, the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science recipient. Terry is an eminent statistician with strong ties to AMSI and he has been involved in every BioInfoSummer to date, he saw this year’s gathering as a particular standout. “In my opinion, this year was the most successful, not just in the large numbers that came along, but in the reach to different fields of science. It wasn’t just the mathematically-inclined people from universities and research institutes who came along, but others from health, agriculture and other bio fields,” Terry said.

The following days were designed to engage participants with the cutting-edge technologies used in bioinformatics research. Each afternoon computing sessions were held, which were extremely popular among participants. The real data sets provided them with an opportunity to consolidate what they had been exposed to throughout the day. All speakers were leading researchers from Australia and overseas. With experience ranging from diabetes research, phylogeny and molecular evolutionary studies to discovering genetic disorders through data analysis.

Speakers

Prof. Falk Schreiber, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Dr Sylvain Foret, Australian National University
Dr Stéphane Guindon, The University of Auckland
Dr Joseph Heled, The University of Auckland
Dr Barbara Holland, The University of Tasmania
Prof. Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins University
Dr Ville-Petteri Mäkinen, Helsinki University of Technology
Dr Martin Morgan, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dr Alicia Oshlack, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Prof. Terry Speed, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Themes
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Systems Biology
  • Next Generation Sequencing Coding
  • Algorithms for Bioinformatics