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Program

VENUE:
Auditorium
Queensland Bioscience Precinct (Building #80)
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072

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PROGRAM:
MONDAY 4 JULY 2011

8:15 a.m.  - 9:00 a.m.            Registration opens

9:00 a.m.  - 9:05 a.m.            Welcome & Introduction

9:05 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.           Molecular biology in a genomic age
                                                   Professor John Quackenbush
                                                  Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
                                                  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard School of Public Health
                                                  USA
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation     MP4 Video

10:35 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.        Morning tea (auditorium foyer)

11:05 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.        Introduction: mathematics, statistics and computer science for biologists
                                                  Dr Uri Keich
                                                  Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics & Statistics
                                                  University of Sydney
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation     MP4 Video

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.           Lunch (auditorium foyer)

1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.             Technologies: classical and next-generation approaches
                                                  Mr Matthew Tinning
                                                  Next-Generation Sequencing Manager (Acting), Australian Genome Research Facility Ltd
                                                  Melbourne
                                                  Abstract     

2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.             De novo assembly of next-generation sequence data
                                                  Dr Torsten Seemann
                                                  Scientific Director, Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium
                                                  Monash University
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.             Afternoon tea (auditorium foyer)

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.             Short-read mapping
                                                  Dr Nicole Cloonan
                                                  Senior Research Officer, Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics
                                                  Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.             Detecting mutations using next-generation sequencing
                                                  Dr Karin Kassahn
                                                  Research Officer, Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics
                                                  Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.             Welcoming barbeque Sponsored by SGI (Level 7, QBP)

TUESDAY 5 JULY 2011

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.             Transcriptomics 101
                                                   Dr Nicole Cloonan
                                                   Senior Research Officer, Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics
                                                   Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.           Analysing RNA-seq data: from reads to results
                                                  Dr Alicia Oshlack
                                                  Head of Bioinformatics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.        Morning tea (auditorium foyer)

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.        Differential expression analysis: RNA-seq 
                                                  Mr Davis McCarthy
                                                  Bioinformatics Division, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.        Genome browsers and the Galaxy workflow tool
                                                  Dr Mike Pheasant
                                                  Manager, Genome Research Computing, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.        The future of genome sequencing
                                                  Professor Sean Grimmond
                                                  Director, Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics
                                                  Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract     

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.           Lunch (auditorium foyer)

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.             An introduction to modern proteomic techniques
                                                  A/Professor Mark Molloy
                                                  Director, Australian Proteome Analysis Facility
                                                  Macquarie University
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.             How does measuring the mass of peptides enable us to determine their amino acid sequence?
                                                  A/Professor Paul Haynes
                                                  Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences
                                                  Macquarie University
                                                  Abstract     Full Presentation

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.             Afternoon tea (auditorium foyer)

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.             How sweet it is! Glycoinformatics for glycomics research
                                                  Professor Nicki Packer
                                                  Director, Centre of Biomolecular Frontiers
                                                  Department of Chemistry and Biomolecuar Sciences
                                                  Macquarie University
                                                  Abstract     

WEDNESDAY 6 JULY 2011

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.          Introduction to systems biology
                                                  Dr Jessica Mar
                                                  Assistant Professor, Department of Systems and Computational Biology
                                                  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
                                                  New York, USA
                                                  Abstract    Full Presentation     MP4 Video

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.        Morning tea (auditorium foyer)

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.        Essential graph theory for biologists
                                                  Dr Nicholas Hamilton
                                                 Group Leader, Bio-Imaging
                                                  Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract    Full Presentation     MP4 Video

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.        Inference and application of gene regulatory networks
                                                  Dr Daniel Hurley
                                                  Research Fellow, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, and
                                                  School of Medical Sciences
                                                  University of Auckland
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.           Lunch (auditorium foyer)

1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.            Structure, unstructure and systems biology
                                                  A/Professor Philip M. Kim
                                                  Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research
                                                  University of Toronto, Canada
                                                  Abstract    Full Presentation     MP4 Video

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.            Visualising and analysing massive networks
                                                  A/Professor Seok-Hee Hong 
                                                  School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.             Afternoon tea (auditorium foyer)

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.            Systems biology: a new paradigm for wine yeast strain development
                                                  Dr Paul Chambers
                                                  Research Manager - Biosciences, Australian Wine Research Institute, Adelaide
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

THURSDAY 7 JULY 2011

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.          Foundations of genomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology
                                                 Professor John Quackenbush
                                                  Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
                                                  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard School of Public Health
                                                  USA
                                                  Abstract    Full Presentation     MP4 Video

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.        Morning tea (auditorium foyer)

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.        An introduction to the use of ontology in computational and molecular biology
                                                  Dr Melissa Davis
                                                  Research Officer, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.           Lunch (auditorium foyer)

1:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.             Computational rules underlying brain wiring development
                                                  Professor Geoffrey Goodhill
                                                  Queensland Brain Institute & School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract    Full Presentation     MP4 Video

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.             Afternoon tea (auditorium foyer)

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.             Dynamics of synaptic transmission in neocortex: mathematical models and functional implications
                                                  Professor Misha Tsodyks
                                                  Department of Neurobiology
                                                 Weismann Institute of Science
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

FRIDAY, 8 JULY 2011

9:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.          Introduction to molecular phylogenetics
                                                 Dr Lars Jermiin
                                                 CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra
                                                ** Due to illness, his presentation was presented by
                                                    Professor Mark Ragan and Dr Vivek Jayaswal **                                                 

                                                  Professor Mark Ragan
                                                  Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics
                                                  Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  
                                                  Dr Vivek Jayaswal
                                                  School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney

                                                  Abstract    Full Presentation by Professor Ragan,   Full Presentation by Dr Jayaswal     MP4 Video

10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.        Morning tea (auditorium foyer)

10:40 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.        Distance, likelihood, and Bayesian approaches to phylogenetics and phylogenetic uncertainty
                                                  Dr Robert Lanfear
                                                  College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.          Trees, networks, communities: mapping genetic transmission in the microbial biosphere
                                                  Professor Mark Ragan
                                                  Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics
                                                  Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.             Lunch (auditorium foyer)

2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.             From pop-gen to phylo-gen
                                                  Associate Professor David Bryant
                                                  Mathematical Biology, University of Otago
                                                  Principal Investigator, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution
                                                  Abstract    MP4 Video

3:20 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.             Recognition of student travel awardees & close of 2011 Winter School

 

 

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