“action-packed lectures and hands on workshops from the best in the bioinformatics field, from Australia and abroad.”
Liam Crowhurst Queensland University of Technology
Zoom: virtual conference link emailed to registrants 48 hours prior to conference and available in Slack
Slack: amsibioinfosummer2020.slack.com
Twitter: @DiscoverAMSI #BioInfoSummer
Program times below are AEDT (Melbourne/Canberra/Sydney)
Please adjust accordingly depending on where you will be participating from.
| MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER – Single Cell / Transcriptomics | |
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| Chair: Dr Xia Hua, Australian National University | |
| 1050 | Conference Opening |
| 1110 | Single-cell multi-omics mapping of human organs Professor Kun Zhang, Department of Bioengineering, University of California |
| 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: A hands on introduction to analyzing single-cell RNA-seq data Dr Christina Azodi, Ms Ruqian Lyu, Mr Jeffrey Pullin, St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research |
| 1600 | BREAK |
| 1630 | Addressing equity and inclusion in bioinformatics Nazeefa Fatima, Sweden’s Computational Biology Organisation |
| 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: Examining functionality and biogenesis pathways of small RNAs in animals Dr Jean Wen & Dr Rippei Hayashi, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU |
| 1600 | CAREERS SESSION Dr Klara Verbyla, CSIRO Dr Göknur Giner, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Dr Tomas Hron, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Kyle Hemming, University of Canberra |
| WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER – Long Read Sequencing | |
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| Chair: Dr Benjamin Schwessinger, Research School of Biology, ANU | |
| 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 | Long read sequencing in real-world applications Cecilia Deng, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited |
| 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: Indigenous Perspectives on Equity, Diversity, and Data Science in Genomics Associate Professor Maui Hudson, Te Kotahi Research Institute, The University of Waikato |
| THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER – Biomedical optimisation / Data science | |
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| Chair: Dr Philipp Bayer, The University of Western Australia |
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| 1100 | Machine Learning Guided Design for Genomics Dr Cheng Soon Ong, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Future Science Platform, Data61, CSIRO |
| 1200 | Bayesian meta-analysis models for Cross Cancer Genomic Investigation of pleiotropic effects with group structure Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology Professor Benoit Liquet, Macquarie University |
| 1230 | Fast Forward ePoster Talks |
| 1300 | BREAK |
| 1400 | Diversity, Inclusion and Allyship in STEMM with QueersInScience Matthew Coleman, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
| 1430 | Personalized bioceramic scaffolds: stereolithography printing, mechanics and in-vivo testing Dr Mohammad Mirkhalaf, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Unit, The University of Sydney |
| 1500 | Ethics in biomedical research Professor Magdalena Plebanski, Biomedical and Health Innovation Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University |
| 1530 | Deep Drug Discovery Dr Djork-Arné Clevert, Bayer AG |
| 1630 | CONFERENCE CLOSE AND PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS |
The program may be subject to change
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