Conference program

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Tuesday November 24th

10:30-12:30 - Pre-conference networking in Remo “Canberra Cafe”

  Plant Genomics - Join live session A
Chair: Jen Taylor - Session slack channel
Metagenomics - Join live session B
Chair: Aaron Darling - Session slack channel
12:30 Invited talk: Seung Rhee
Challenges and Opportunities for Bioinformatics an…
Invited talk: Ami Bhatt
Microproteins, Mobile Genetic elements and Strain-…
12:40    
12:50 Stephanie Chen
Unsupervised orthologous gene tree enrichment for …
Feargal Ryan
Intrapartum or Direct Antibiotic Exposure in Early…
13:00 Charlotte Francois
New insights into plant-microbe interactions throu…
Luis Pedro Coelho
The AMPSphere: antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in th…
13:10 Chelsea Matthews
Assessing PacBio long reads and de novo genome ass…
Daniela Gaio
Over 25,000 metagenome assembled genomes reveal th…
13:20 Invited talk: Bernice Waweru
The African Orphan Crops Consortium, alleviating s…
Invited talk: Robert Edwards
Phage genome bioinformatics
13:30    
13:40 break break

Networking session (invited speakers of the day, odd-numbered abstracts, sponsors)

  Regulation - Join live session A
Chair: Sonika Tyagi - Session slack channel
Biomed - Join live session B
Chair: Jimmy Breen - Session slack channel
15:00 Invited talk: Paul Gardner
Features of functional human genes
Invited talk: Jessica Mar
Making sense of heterogeneity in gene expression d…
15:10    
15:20 Lixinyu Liu
The landscape of alternative polyadenylation in CD…
Dhrithi Deshpande
A comprehensive analysis of code and data availabi…
15:30 Qian Du
DNA hypomethylation induces intrapopulation hetero…
Gulrez Chahal
CaraVaN: Prioritising Cardiac Variants in the Non-…
15:40 Emma Gail
A predictive model for commonly-repressed polycomb…
Adria Closa
Characterisation of a convergent malignant phenoty…
15:50 Chi Nam Ignatius Pang
RNase III-CLASH of multi-drug resistant Staphyloco…
David Goode
An Evolutionary Approach to Network Analysis of Ca…
16:00 Jiayue-Clara Jiang
Integrated transcription factor profiling with tra…
Nitika Kandhari
Finding signatures of alternative polyadenylation …
16:10 short break short break
16:40 Honorary Senior Fellow Award & Talk - Prof. Gordon Smyth  
17:30 End End

Wednesday November 25th

10:30-12:30 - Pre-conference networking in Remo “Canberra Cafe”

  Phylodynamics & COVID19 - Join live session A
Chair: Fabio Zanini - Session slack channel
Non-model - Join live session B
Chair: Alexie Papanicolaou - Session slack channel
12:30 Invited talk: Torsten Seemann
Complete microbial genomes for public health in Au…
Invited talk: Karine Le Roch
Comparative 3D Genome Organization in Apicomplexan…
12:40    
12:50 Clare Sloggett
AusTrakka – Working towards integrated pathogen ge…
Aidan Tay
Developing a computational safeguard to detect gen…
13:00 Harman Singh
eMST, a scalable and interpretable method for Phyl…
Katarina Stuart
Whole transcripts in genome assembly, annotation, …
13:10 Invited talk: Robert Lanfear
Confidence and truth in phylogenomics
Swapnil Tichkule
Anthroponotic transmission and adaptive introgress…
13:20    
13:30 break break

Networking session (invited speakers of the day, even-numbered abstracts, sponsors)

  Methods and new technologies - Join live session A
Chair: Jean Yang - Session slack channel
Transcriptomics / RNA - Join live session B
Chair: Jean Wen - Session slack channel
14:50 Invited talk: Kim-Anh Lê Cao
Navigating through ‘omics data: a multivariate per…
Invited talk: Yue Wan
Direct RNA sequencing identifies isoform specific …
15:00    
15:10 Yingxin Lin
Transfer learning for data integration of single-c…
Oak Hatzimanolis
Implementing an integrated analysis to identify an…
15:20 Simon Sadedin
Exploring Neural Network models for CNV detection …
Vincent Corbin
Moving beyond RNA sequence: uncovering the functio…
15:30 Ebony Watson
Image-based Predictive Modelling for the Character…
Sasdekumar Loganathan
Application of mixture model to RNA-seq data to di…
15:40 Al J Abadi
Integrating multi-modal single-cell studies with a…
Angel Liang
RNA splicing is a hierarchical supernetwork that c…
15:50 Legana Fingerhut
ampir: an R package for fast genome-wide predictio…
Ruebena Dawes
Features that determine 5’ cryptic splice site sel…
16:00 Thomas Quinn
Learning Distance-Dependent Motif Interactions: An…
Ke Ding
Long short-term memory RNN for mirtron identificat…
16:10 short break short break
16:40 Society Awards  
17:30 End End

19:00-20:30 Social event in Remo (Bioinformatics Quiz Night, click here to join)

Thursday November 26th

10:30-12:30 - Pre-conference networking in Remo “Canberra Cafe”

  Indigenous Genomics - Join live session A
Chair: Bastien Llamas - Session slack channel
Long reads - Join live session B
Chair: Lachlan Coin - Session slack channel
12:30 Invited talk: Keolu Fox
Creating accountability in human population geneti…
Invited talk: Karen Miga
Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New In…
12:40    
12:50 Irene Gallego Romero
Characterising Diversity in Gene Regulation Across…
Luyi Tian
Comprehensive characterization of single cell full…
13:00 Sally Wasef
How Ancient genomes can help Aboriginal Australian…
Nadia Davidson
JAFFAL: Detecting fusion genes with long read tran…
13:10 Invited talk: Alex Brown
Challenges In Aboriginal health in the genomics er…
Zaka Yuen
Systematic benchmarking of detection tools for CpG…
13:20   Stephen Kazakoff
Mapping cancer transcriptomes with long-read seque…
13:30 break break

Networking session (invited speakers of the day, topic tables, sponsors)

  Genomics - Join live session A
Chair: Sarah Kummerfeld - Session slack channel
Single cell - Join live session B
Chair: Ellis Patrick - Session slack channel
14:30 Invited talk: Yu Lin
Binning Metagenomic Sequences
Invited talk: Sara Ballouz
Sex-specific co-expression: a baseline to explore …
14:40    
14:50 Daniel Cameron
VIRUSBreakend: Viral Integration Recognition Using…
Adam Chan
An automated framework for elucidating hierarchica…
15:00 Tingting Gong
Structural variation signatures in primary prostat…
Elisabeth Roesch
How does gene expression entropy change along deve…
15:10 Jacob Bradford
CRISPR, faster, better - The Crackling method for …
Yue Cao
Benchmarking single cell RNA-sequencing simulation…
15:20 Anushi Shah
Investigation of de novo mutations in human genome…
Belinda Phipson
propeller: finding statistically significant diffe…
15:30 Varuni Sarwal
A comprehensive benchmarking of WGS-based structur…
Marie Trussart
Removing unwanted variation with CytofRUV to integ…
15:40 Loic Thibaut
powerSFS: quantifying the intolerance of genes to …
Anna Trigos
The next generation of biomarkers in cancer: singl…
15:50 Invited talk: Phillippa Taberlay
Recapitulation of a juvenile-like histone landscap…
Invited talk: Fabio Zanini
Hypothesis generation in the age of cell atlases
16:10 short break short break
16:40 COMBINE best talk  
16:50 Best async talk award  
17:00 Conference close  

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