2017 Winter School Program
Venue: Auditorium, Queensland Bioscience Precinct (Bldg #80), Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus.
Program
Next generation sequencing & bioinformatics
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Welcome and introduction
Dr Nicholas Hamilton |
| 09:05 – 09:45 | Next-generation sequencing – technology overview
Dr Ken McGrath |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | NGS mapping, errors and quality control
Dr Felicity Newell |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Mutation detection in whole-genome sequencing
Dr Ann-Marie Patch |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | De novo genome assembly
A/Prof. Torsten Seemann |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Measuring methylation: from arrays to sequencing
Dr Jovana Maksimovic |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Cancer epigenomics: the devil is in the detail
Prof. Susan Clark |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Defensive NGS informatics – what can go wrong and how do you know when to throw in the towel?
Mr John Pearson |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | How can bioinformatics help feed the world in 2050?
Prof. Dave Edwards |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Resource talk: How QCIF enables research
Dr Nigel Ward, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Resource talk: RAiD – Research data for projects not people!
Dr Andrew Janke, The Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland |
| 17:45 | Social BBQ
Venue: Auditorium foyer |
Next generation sequencing & bioinformatics
| 09:00 – 09:45 | An introduction to RNA-seq
A/Prof. Paul Gardner |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | MicroRNAs – sequencing, analysis …. and then what?
A/Prof. Nicole Cloonan |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
Advances in single-cell sequencing analysis
| 11:00 – 11:45 | An introduction to the field of single cell sequencing, and summary of progress and challenges
Dr Joseph Powell |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | A primer on single-cell RNA-seq analysis
Dr Matthew Ritchie |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Common genetic variation drives molecular heterogeneity in human iPSCs
Dr Helena Kilpinen |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Low level analysis of single cell RNA-sequencing data
Dr Belinda Phipson |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Bioinformatics analysis of single cell RNA-seq data
Dr Joshua W.K. Ho |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Searching for the pre-leukemia stem cell: scRNA-seq of self-renewing thymocytes
Dr Lynn Fink |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Planning single cell experiments and sample suitability
Dr Sam Lukowski |
Advances in single-cell sequencing analysis
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Using of long-read and long-fragment sequencing for assembling complex genomic regions
A/Prof. Lachlan Coin |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Using ultra high-throughput single cell sequencing to understanding cellular heterogeneity
Dr Joseph Powell |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Future of bioinformatics: how real-time data analytics, clinical data access, and machine learning are transforming medical research
A/Prof. Marcel Dinger |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Panel discussion
Chair: A/Prof. Nicole Cloonan |
*** FREE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ***
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE AFTERNOON
| 12:30 – 13:00 | IMB tour (1) – Limited to 50 attendees only
Meeting point: Auditorium foyer |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | IMB tour (2) – If more requests are received and is also limited to 50 attendees only
Meeting point: Auditorium foyer |
| 14:00 – 17:00 | Special Wednesday Afternoon Workshop
An introduction to Galaxy with the NeCTAR Genomics Virtual Laboratory Dr Igor Makunin Venue: Multi Media Room (Room 3.141, access through the auditorium foyer) (This workshop is limited to 36 attendees only and is intended for bench scientists, and no previous informatics experience is needed.) What is required before attending the workshop?
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Modelling ecologies & populations
| 09:00 – 09:45 | The emergent geography and geopolitical (mis)alignment of dispersal corridors and barriers across the Indo-West Pacific
Dr Eric Treml |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Modelling and managing complex ecosystems
A/Prof. Michael Bode |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Using dynamic models to aid the conservation of harvested populations
Dr Matthew Holden |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Building and using detection models for ecological surveys
Dr Cindy Hauser |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
Advanced data visualisation & computation
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Network and data visualisation and analysis in Cytoscape
Dr Melissa Davis |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Computational and infrastructure support for the biosciences
Prof. David Abramson |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Creating memorable data visualisations using the R programming language
Dr Christopher Brown |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Resource talk: What the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society can do for you Dr Melissa Davis ABACBS |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Resource talk: What COMBINE does for students and ECRs in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Ms Leah Roberts President COMBINE **COMBINE would like to invite interested students and ECRs to join them after Leah’s talk for a social meet up at the Pizza Cafe.** |
Systems and synthetic biology
| 09:00 – 10:10 | Cell state and cell fate – mapping cellular identity with big data
Professor Christine Wells |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Morning Tea |
| 10:40 – 11:50 | Metabolic cybernetics
Professor David James |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | IMB Friday Noon Seminar in conjunction with Winter School
Using networks to link genotype to phenotype Professor John Quackenbush |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | An introduction to synthetic biology
A/Professor Keith Shearwin |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Personal notes on the advancements in synthetic biology
Professor Kirill Alexandrov |
| 16:00 | Winter School wrap-up and refreshment with IMB/ECR’s |