“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 30 NOVEMBER – Single Cell / Transcriptomics | |
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| Chair: Dr Xia Hua, Australian National University | |
| 1100 | Conference Opening |
| 1110 | Keynote presentation Professor Kun Zhang, UCSD Department of Bioengineering |
| 1200 | Grand challenges in single-cell data science Dr Davis McCarthy, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research and Melbourne Integrative Genomics, The University of Melbourne |
| 1230 | Discrete immune and microbial niches of the human colon Dr Kylie James, Garvan Institute of Medical Research |
| 1300 | BREAK |
| 1400 | WORKSHOP 1: Dimension reduction and visualization of high dimensional single cell transcriptomics Dr James Nichols, Biological Data Science Institute, ANU |
| 1400 | WORKSHOP 2 |
| 1700 | Multi-omics data integration using manifolds Dr Mirjana Efremova, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London |
| TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER – RNA Biology | |
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| Chair: Dr Teresa Neeman, Biological Data Science Institute, ANU | |
| 1100 | MicroRNAs in space, permafrost and single cells Associate Professor Marc Friedländer, Stockholm University/SciLifeLab |
| 1200 | Understanding post-transcriptional regulation of miRNA expression Professor Katsutomo Okamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
| 1230 | Regulation of non-coding genome: Transposable element silencing by PIWI-piRNAs Associate Professor Yuka W. Iwasaki, Keio University School of Medicine |
| 1300 | BREAK |
| 1400 | WORKSHOP: Small RNA analysis Dr Jean Wen & Dr Rippei Hayashi, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU |
| 1600 | CAREERS SESSION |
| WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER – Long Read Sequencing | |
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| 1100 | From long-read sequencing to understanding genome biology: my journey in plant-pathogen interactions Dr Jana Sperschneider, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, The Australian National University |
| 1140 | Presentation |
| 1210 | National Centre for Indigenous Genomics Dr Hardip Patel, National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, ANU |
| 1240 | Fast Forward ePoster Talks |
| 1300 | BREAK |
| 1400 | WORKSHOP: Long-Read, long reach Bioinformatics Dr Benjamin Schwessinger, Research School of Biology, ANU |
| 1800 | PUBLIC LECTURE |
| THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER – Biomedical optimisation / Data science | |
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| 1100 | Keynote presentation |
| 1200 | Presentation |
| 1230 | Presentation |
| 1300 | BREAK |
| 1400 | Keynote presentation |
| 1500 | Presentation |
| 1530 | Presentation |
| 1600 | CONFERENCE CLOSE AND PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS |
The program may be subject to change
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