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


