“5 days of action-packed lectures and hands on workshops from the best in the bioinformatics field, from Australia and abroad.”
Liam Crowhurst Queensland University of Technology
| MONDAY 2 DECEMBER – Introduction to bioinformatics | ||
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| 1000-1100 | REGISTRATION | |
| 1100-1130 | Conference Opening | |
| 1130-1230 | Opening Lecture: Bioinformatic the discipline, versus the career Professor Melanie Bahlo, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research |
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| 1230-1415 | WELCOME LUNCH / CHOOSE MATHS LUNCH EVENT (catered) | |
| 1415-1500 | Workshops | |
| Stream A: | Biology in the metaverse – a Virtual Reality tour Professor Philip Poronnik, The University of Sydney Jim Cook, ICT Techlab, The University of Sydney Professor Peter Thorn, The University of Sydney |
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| Stream B: | An Introduction to Statistics in the Omics Era Associate Professor Gary Glonek, The University of Adelaide |
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| 1500-1520 | AFTERNOON TEA (catered) | |
| 1520-1630 | Workshops | |
| Stream A: | Biology in the metaverse – a Virtual Reality tour Professor Philip Poronnik, The University of Sydney Jim Cook, ICT Techlab, The University of Sydney Professor Peter Thorn, The University of Sydney |
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| Stream B: | Enter the tidyverse with R and RStudio (Part A) Kevin Wang, The University of Sydney Dr Garth Tarr, The University of Sydney |
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| Stream C: | Basic UNIX and RNA-seq processing Dr Kitty Lo, The University of Sydney Dr Dario Strbenac, The University of Sydney |
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| 1630-1730 | Saving the Tasmanian Devil from Extinction Professor Kathy Belov AO FRSN, The University of Sydney |
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| 1730-1830 | WELCOME RECEPTION (catered) |
| TUESDAY 3 DECEMBER – Epigenetics / Genomics | ||
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| 0845-0900 | REGISTRATION | |
| 0900-0945 | Associate Professor Clare Stirzaker, Garvan Institute of Medical Research | |
| 0945-1030 | Accurate identification of mRNA alternative splicing using Oxford Nanopore sequencing Dr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne |
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| 1030-1100 | MORNING TEA (catered) | |
| 1100-1145 | FreeHi-C: high fidelity Hi-C data simulation for benchmarking and data augmentation Ye Zheng, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center |
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| 1145-1200 | Diversity in STEM Chloe Pearse, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute |
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| 1200-1330 | Diversity in STEM LUNCH (catered) | |
| 1330-1500 | Workshops sponsored by Australian BioCommons |
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| Stream A: | Open data resources for human genomics research Associate Professor Jason Wong, University of Hong Kong Dr Rebecca Poulos, Children’s Medical Research Institute |
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| Stream B: | Enter the tidyverse with R and RStudio (Part B) Kevin Wang, The University of Sydney Dr Garth Tarr, The University of Sydney |
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| Stream C: | 3D Genomics and Long-range Gene Regulations Ye Zheng, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center |
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| 1500-1530 | AFTERNOON TEA (catered) | |
| 1530-1700 | Workshops sponsored by Australian BioCommons |
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| Stream A: | Open data resources for human genomics research Associate Professor Jason Wong, University of Hong Kong Dr Rebecca Poulos, Children’s Medical Research Institute |
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| Stream B: | Enter the tidyverse with R and RStudio (Part B cont.) Kevin Wang, The University of Sydney Dr Garth Tarr, The University of Sydney |
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| Stream C: | 3D Genomics and Long-range Gene Regulations Ye Zheng, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center |
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| 1700-1830 | COMBINE CAREERS EVENT (catered) |
| WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER – Single cell omics | |
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| 0845-0900 | REGISTRATION |
| 0900-0945 | Professor Christine Wells, Centre for Stem Cell Systems |
| 0945-1030 | Understanding cell fate decisions using single cell genomics Dr John Marioni, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge University |
| 1030-1100 | MORNING TEA (catered) |
| 1100-1130 | Multidimensional single cell analysis of the tumour microenvironment Associate Professor Alex Swarbrick, Garvin Institute of Medical Research |
| 1130-1150 | Investigating higher order interactions in single cell data with scHOT Dr Shila Ghazanfar, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute |
| 1150-1210 | Associate Professor Jessica Mar, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology |
| 1210-1230 | Scalable bioinformatics methods for single cell data Associate Professor Joshua Ho, University of Hong Kong |
| 1230-1330 | LUNCH |
| 1330-1500 | Workshops sponsored by The Westmead Institute for Medical Research |
| Stream A: | Single cell data analytics |
| Stream B: | Single cell RNA-seq data analysis on the cloud Associate Professor Joshua Ho, University of Hong Kong |
| Stream C: | Gene expression analysis with RNA-Seq data using R Associate Professor Jessica Mar, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology |
| 1500-1530 | AFTERNOON TEA (catered) |
| 1530-1700 | Workshops sponsored by The Westmead Institute for Medical Research |
| Stream A: | Single cell data analytics |
| Stream B: | Pitfalls and roadblocks in single-cell analyses Dr John Marioni, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge University Dr Shila Ghazanfar, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute |
| Stream C: | Gene expression analysis with RNA-Seq data using R Associate Professor Jessica Mar, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology |
| THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER – Mass spec analytics | ||
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| 0845-0900 | REGISTRATION | |
| 0900-0945 | Challenges and questions in proteomics technologies and research Dr Mark Larance, The University of Sydney |
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| 0945-1030 | iProFun: An integrative analysis tool to screen for Proteogenomic Functional traits Professor Pei Weng, Icahn Medical School at Mount Sinai, New York |
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| 1030-1100 | MORNING TEA (catered) | |
| 1100-1125 | Using Multiomic Technologies to Unravel Heart Failure Dr John O’Sullivan, The University of Sydney |
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| 1125-1150 | Computational analysis for biological discovery from (phospho)proteomic data Dr Pengyi Yang, The University of Sydney |
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| 1150-1215 | Key ingredients of a data analytical pipeline with TMT or SWATH Dr Dana Pascovici, Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University |
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| 1215-1330 | LUNCH | |
| 1330-1500 | Workshops jointly held with BioCAsia sponsored by Children’s Medical Research Institute |
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| Stream A: | Imputation and data quality control for proteomics data Professor Pei Weng, Icahn Medical School at Mount Sinai, New York |
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| Stream B: | Computational analysis for biological discovery from (phospho)proteomic data Dr Pengyi Yang, The University of Sydney |
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| Stream C: | Professor Martin Morgan, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
| 1500-1530 | AFTERNOON TEA (catered) | |
| 1530-1630 | Workshops jointly held with BioCAsia sponsored by Children’s Medical Research Institute |
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| Stream A: | Imputation and data quality control for proteomics data Professor Pei Weng, Icahn Medical School at Mount Sinai, New York |
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| Stream B: | Introduction to proteomics Dr Ben Crossett, Sydney Mass Spectrometry, The Charles Perkins Centre |
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| Stream C: | Creation of an R Package Dr Peter Hickey, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research |
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| 1630-1700 | Fast Forward Poster Session | |
| 1700-1800 | Poster Q&A Session Public lecture registration (catered) |
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| 1800-1930 | Public Lecture: The Bright Future of Applied Statistics Professor Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University |
| FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER – BioCAsia / Precision medicine Day jointly held with BioCAsia |
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| 0845-0900 | REGISTRATION | |
| 0900-0940 | How To Advance Science Using _Bioconductor_ Professor Martin Morgan, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center |
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| 0940-0955 | The RNAseq123 workflow package in Bioconductor Associate Professor Matthew Ritchie, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research |
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| 0955-1010 | ClinSV: Detection of clinically relevant structural and copy number variation from whole genome sequencing Dr Andre Minoche, Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics |
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| 1010-1015 | Experiences of a First-Time Package Contributor Dr Stephen Pedersen, University of Adelaide |
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| 1015-1020 | schex avoids overplotting for large single cell RNA-sequencing datasets Dr Saskia Freytag, UWA Centre for Medical Research |
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| 1020-1025 | COmapR: Genetic length calculation from crossover events Ruqian Lyu |
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| 1030-1100 | MORNING TEA (catered) | |
| 1100-1120 | Single cell analysis with Mass Cytometry; technology introduction and opportunities in clinical studies Dr Helen McGuire, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney |
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| 1120-1200 | On differential discovery in high-dimensional cytometry data Helena Crowell, University of Zurich |
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| 1200-1230 | Conference presentation | |
| 1230-1330 | LUNCH | |
| 1330-1530 | Workshops jointly held with BioCAsia | |
| Stream A: | CyTOF bioinformatics workshop Helena Crowell, University of Zurich |
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| Stream B: | plyranges Stuart Lee |
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| Stream C: | Reproducibility in Bioinformatics Dave Tang |
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| 1530-1550 | AFTERNOON TEA (catered) | |
| 1550-1645 | Defining immune signatures of therapeutic response with non-negative matrix factorization of bulk and single cell data Associate Professor Elana Fertig, Johns Hopkins University |
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| 1645-1700 | CONFERENCE CLOSE |
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