Program

Conference Program PDF

Please click here to download the official GIW/ABACBS 2019 Conference Program PDF. This will contain all the information about the conference, including WiFi passowrds.

Maps of CPC Lecture Theatre, Seminar Rooms and Wallace Theatre

Please click here to access the map of the layout of CPC (Lecture Theatre, Seminar Rooms) and how to get to Wallace Theatre from CPC.

Online Program

*Please click on the session name in the table of content below to jump directly to that session.

The start time and title for each talk selected for presentations during the parallel sessions will be available sometime in the week starting 25th November.

Day 1 - Monday 9th December 2019

Session 1- Joint Session of COMBINE, AYRCOB, ABACBS and GIW and Social Functions

Duration: 15:15 - 17:10

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC)Click here for map

15:15   Welcome to Country
15:30   Housekeeping and welcome to conference
15:40   Rafael Irizarry - Statistical Approaches for Single Cell Technologies. Joint conference plenary.
16:30   COMBINE Awards (x6 - 10mins), ABACBS Awards (15 min) + ABACBS Award Q&A (2 x 5 mins)
  Social Functions
17:10   Welcome reception drinks
18:00   Postdoc drinks bioinformaticians drinks at the Alfred Hotel's beer garden 7 mins. walk from the CPC. Bar tab possible (TBC)?
RSVP for PosDoc drinks here: http://abacbs19-postdoc-catchup.rsvpify.com
19:00   Speakers Dinner

Day 2 - Tuesday 10th December 2019

Session 2 - Plenary Lectures

Duration: 09:00 - 10:50

Location: Wallace Theatre Click here for map

Chair: Joshua Ho

 9:00   John Marioni - Understanding cell fate decisions using single cell genomics International Keynote.
 9:40   Pei Wang - iProFun: An integrative analysis tool to screen for Proteogenomic Functional traits. International Keynote.
10:20   Eduardo Eyras - A brave new RNA world. National Keynote.

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Morning Tea

Duration: 10:50 - 11:20

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Session 3 - Parallel Sessions

Duration: 11:20 - 12:20

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Four parallel sessions with 4 x 15 minutes talks.

3a - Single Cell Analytics 1, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Joshua Ho
11:20

Cloud accelerated alignment and assembly of full-length single-cell RNA-seq data using Falco - Andrian Yang, Abhinav Kishore, Benjamin Phipps, Joshua WK Ho

GIW Paper
11:35

scDC: Single cell differential composition analysis - Yue Cao, Yingxin Lin, John T. Ormerod, Pengyi Yang, Jean Yang, Kitty K. Lo

ABACBS Talk
11:50

FlowGrid: A python package for fast clustering for millions of single cell transcriptomic profiles - Xiunan Fang, Joshua W. K. Ho

ABACBS Talk
12:05

Single-cell RNA-sequencing of Differentiating iPS Cells Reveals Dynamic Genetic Effects on Gene Expression - Anna SE Cuomo*, Daniel D Seaton*, Davis J. McCarthy, Iker Martinez, Marc Jan Bonder, Jose Garcia-Bernardo, Shradha Amatya, Pedro Madrigal, Abigail Isaacson, Florian Buettner, Andrew Knights, Kedar Nath Natarajan, HipSci Consortium, Ludovic Vallier, John C Marioni, Mariya Chhatriwala, Oliver Stegle*

ABACBS Talk
3b - Data analytics 1, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Pengyi Yang
11:20

Discovery of Inflammatory Bowel Disease-associated miRNAs using a Novel Bipartite Clustering Approach - MD ALTAFUL AMIN, Mohammad Bozlul Karim, Pingzhao Hu, Naoaki ONO, Shigehiko Kanaya

GIW Paper
11:35

Old drug repositioning and new drug discovery through similarity learning from drug-target joint feature spaces - Yi Zheng, Hui Peng, Xiaocai Zhang, Zhixun Zhao, Xiaoying Gao, Jinyan Li

GIW Paper
11:50

Sierra: Discovery of differential transcript usage from polyA captured single-cell RNA-seq data - Ralph Patrick, David Humphreys, Joshua W. K. Ho, Alicia Oshlack, Richard Harvey, Kitty Lo

ABACBS Talk
12:05

Janis: A Python framework for Portable Pipelines - Michael Franklin, Richard Lupat, Jiaan Yu, Evan Thomas, Daniel Park, Bernard Pope, Tony Papenfuss, Jason Li

ABACBS Talk
3c - Proteomics/Metabolomics, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Shoba Ranganathan
11:20

DeepSuccinylSite: a deep learning based approach for protein succinylation site prediction. - Niraj Thapa, Meenal Chaudhari, Sean McManus, Kaushik Roy, Robert H Newman, Hiroto Saigo, Dukka KC

GIW Paper
11:35

Toot-T: Discrimination of transport proteins from non-transport proteins - Munira Alballa, Gregory Butler

GIW Paper
11:50

Predicting, exploring, and synthesising ancestral sequences using Graphical Representation of Ancestral Sequence Predictions (GRASP) - Gabriel Foley, Ariane Mora, Mikael Bodén

ABACBS Talk
12:05

Integration of transcriptomics data in a genome-scale metabolic model to decipher the mechanisms of polymyxin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii - Jinxin Zhao, Yan Zhu, Tony Velkov, Jian Li

ABACBS Talk
3d - NGS data analysis, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Eleni Giannoulatou
11:20

Nanopore base-calling from a perspective of instance segmentation - Yao-zhong Zhang; Arda Akdemir; Georg Tremmel; Seiya Imoto; Satoru Miyano; Tetsuo Shibuya; Rui Yamaguchi

GIW Paper
11:35

gencore: An Efficient Tool to Generate Consensus Reads for Error Suppressing and Duplicate Removing of NGS data - (Puxue Qiao as presenter), Shifu Chen, Yanqing Zhou, Yaru Chen, Tanxiao Huang, Wenting Liao, Yun Xu, Zhicheng Li, Jia Gu

GIW Paper
11:50

Comparison of somatic variant detection algorithms using Ion Torrent targeted deep sequencing data - Qing Wang, Vassiliki Kotoula, Pei-Chen Hsu, Kyriaki Papadopoulou, Joshua W.K. Ho, George Fountzilas, Eleni Giannoulatou

GIW Paper
12:05

Enhanced prediction of the origin of genomic reads with logistic regression for circulating tumor cells (CTC) from patient-derived xenografts (PDX) - Goknur Giner, Delphine Merino, Jean Berthelet, Bhupinder Pal, Aaron T. L. Lun, Sepideh Foroutan, Melissa J. Davis, Jane E. Visvader, Gordon K. Smyth

ABACBS Talk

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Lunch / AGM & Poster Session A

Posters have a maximum size of A0 in the portrait orientation.

Duration: 12:20 - 14:15

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Session 4 - Parallel Sessions & Fast Forward Presentations

Duration: 14:15 - 15:45

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Four parallel sessions, including 4 x 15 minutes talk and 30 mins. fast forward prseentations.

4a - Transcriptomics, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Pengyi Yang
14:15

Doing quantile normalization right - Yaxing Zhao, Limsoon Wong, Wilson Wen Bin Goh

GIW Paper
14:30

Investigating the role of super-enhancer RNAs underlying embryonic stem cell differentiation - Hao-Chun Chang, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Hsueh-Fen Juan, Chia-Lang Hsu

GIW Paper
14:45

Using tRNA-seq, RNA-seq, and proteomics data analysis to investigate the importance of tRNA modifications – A case study of tRNA Guanine and Inosine-N1-methyltransferase TRM5 in Arabidopsis thaliana. - Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng, Qianqian Guo, Shanshan Shi, Diwen Fan, Jun Li, Jing Zhao, Hua Wang, Rakesh David, Parul Mittal, Trung Do, Ralph Bock, Ming Zhao, Wenbin Zhou, Iain R. Searle

ABACBS Talk
15:00

A Bayesian hierarchical model for detecting differential gene expression distributions for RNA-seq data - Aedan G K Roberts, Daniel R Catchpoole, Paul J Kennedy

ABACBS Talk
4b - Structural Variation, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Tony Papenfuss
14:15

Rearrangement analysis of multiple bacterial genomes - Mehwish Noureen, Ipputa Tada, Takeshi Kawashima, Masanori Arita

GIW Paper
14:30

SVEnsemble: an algorithm for ensemble structural variant calling using re-evaluated quality scores via probabilistic random forest - Ruining Dong, Justin Bedo, Anthony T Papenfuss

ABACBS Talk
14:45

Methods for Transposable Element Insertion Detection - Adam Ewing

ABACBS Talk
15:00

Unscrambling the tumor genome via integrated analysis of structural variation and copy number - Daniel L Cameron, Charles Shale, Jonathan Baber, Anthony T Papenfuss, Peter Priestly

ABACBS Talk
4c - Systems Biology, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Igy Pang
14:15

PreNet: Predictive Network from ATAC-seq data - Nazmus Salehin, Patrick Tam and Pierre Osteil

GIW Paper
14:30

Transcription factor regulatory modules provide the molecular mechanisms for functional redundancy observed among transcription factors in yeast - Tzu-Hsien Yang

GIW Paper
14:45

Efficient computation of stochastic cell-size transient dynamics - Cesar Augusto Nieto-Acuna, Cesar Augusto Vargas-Garcia, Abhyudai Singh, Juan Manuel Pedraza-Leal

GIW Paper
15:00

3D-Cardiomics: A spatial transcriptional atlas of the mammalian heart - Monika Mohenska, Nathalia M. Tan, Alex Tokolyi, Milena B. Furtado, Mauro W. Costa, Andrew J. Perry, Jessica Hatwell-Humble, Jan M. Ruijter, Hieu T. Nim, Susan K. Nilsson, David R. Powell, Nadia A. Rosenthal, Fernando J. Rossello, Mirana Ramialison, Jose M. Polo

ABACBS Talk
4d - Genomics 1, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Eleni Giannoulatou
14:15

Hierarchical structural Component Model for Pathway analysis of Common Variants - Nan Jiang, Sungyoung Lee, Taesung Park

GIW Paper
14:30

Sketch distance-based clustering of chromosomes for large genome database compression - Tao Tang, Yuansheng Liu, Buzhong Zhang, Benyue Su, Jinyan Li

GIW Paper
14:45

SpliceFinder: ab initio prediction of splice sites using convolutional neural network - Ruohan WANG, Zishuai Wang, Jianping Wang, Shuaicheng Li

GIW Paper
15:00

Estimating telomere length from long read sequencing data. - Pablo Galaviz, Michael Lee, Ted Wong, Martin Smith, Erdahl T. Teber, Hilda A. Pickett

ABACBS Talk
Fast Forward Presentations, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Ellis Patrick
15:15 Fast Forward Presentations will take place at the CPC lecture theatre and streamed to the poster rooms.

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Afternoon Tea

Duration: 15:45 - 16:15

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Session 5 - Plenary Lectures

Duration: 16:15 - 17:55

Location: Wallace Theatre (CPC) Click here for map

Chair: Mark Cowley

16:15   David Lynn - Rewiring of metabolic, transcriptional, and protein-protein interaction networks in colorectal cancer cells expressing oncogenic KRAS. National Keynote.
16:45   Denis Bauer - Cloud computing and artificial intelligence transforms bioinformatics research. National Keynote.
17:15   Mona Singh - Integrative methods for deciphering cancer networks. International Keynote.

GIW/ABACBS Conference Dinner

Duration: 18:15 - 22:30

Location: The Grandstand Function Centre (opposite the CPC). See map by clicking here.

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Day 3 - Wednesday 11th December 2019

Session 6 - Plenary Lectures

Duration: 9:00 - 10:50

Location: Wallace Theatre Click here for map

Chair: Tony Papenfuss

 9:00   Elana Fertig - Transfer Learning for Cross-species, Cross-tissue, and Spatial Single Cell Analysis. International Keynote.
 9:40   Jason Wong - Determinants of CTCF/cohesin binding site mutagenesis in cancer genomes. International Keynote.
10:20   Clare Wade - The genomics of cognition in dogs. National Keynote.

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Morning Tea

Duration: 10:50 - 11:20

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Session 7 - Parallel Sessions

Duration: 11:20 - 12:20

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Four parallel sessions with 4 x 15 minutes talks.

7a - Translational Genomics, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Jean Yang
11:20

DeepTRIAGE: Interpretable and Individualised Biomarker Scores using Attention Mechanism for the Classification of Breast Cancer Sub-types - Adham Beykikhoshk, Thomas P. Quinn, Samuel C. Lee, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

GIW Paper
11:35

Cancer Minority Report: Somatic changes in blood WGS predict future cancer - Mark Pinese, Paul Lacaze, Zoe McQuilten, Robyn Woods, John McNeil, David Thomas

ABACBS Talk
11:50

Introme: Identifying atypical splice-altering mutations as drivers of high-risk paediatric cancer - Patricia Sullivan, Mark Pinese, Velimir Gayevskiy, Sarah Beecroft, Marie Wong, Chelsea Mayoh, Vanessa Tyrrell, Emily Oates, Mark Cowley

ABACBS Talk
12:05

Genome-wide cell-free DNA fragmentation in patients with cancer - Stephen Cristiano, Alessandro Leal, Jillian Phallen, Jacob Fiksel, Vilmos Adleff, Daniel C. Bruhm, Sarah Østrup Jensen, Jamie E. Medina, Carolyn Hruban, James R. White, Doreen N. Palsgrove, Noushin Niknafs, Valsamo Anagnostou, Patrick Forde, Jarushka Naidoo, Kristen Marrone, Julie Brahmer, Brian D. Woodward, Hatim Husain, Karlijn L. van Rooijen, Mai-Britt Worm Ørntoft, Anders Husted Madsen, Cornelis J.H. van de Velde, Marcel Verheij, Annemieke Cats, Cornelis J.A. Punt, Geraldine R. Vink, Nicole C.T. van Grieken, Miriam Koopman, Remond J.A. Fijneman, Julia S. Johansen, Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Gerrit A. Meijer, Claus Lindbjerg Andersen, Robert B. Scharpf, Victor E. Velculescu

ABACBS Talk
7b - Deep Learning, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Shoba Ranganathan
11:20

DeepMF: Deciphering the Latent Patterns in Omics Profiles with a Deep Learning Method - Lingxi Chen, Jiao Xu, Shuai Cheng Li

GIW Paper
11:35

Dual Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting Chemical Networks - Shonosuke Harada, Hirotaka Akita, Masashi Tsubaki, Yukino Baba, Ichigaku Takigawa, Yoshihiro Yamanishi, Hisashi Kashima

GIW Paper
11:50

Time series computational prediction of vaccines for influenza A H3N2 with recurrent neural networks - Rui Yin, Yu Zhang, Xinrui Zhou and Chee Keong Kwoh

GIW Paper
12:05

ReorientExpress: reference-free orientation of nanopore cDNA reads with deep learning - Angel Ruiz-Rche, Akanksha Srivasava, Joel A. Ind, Ivan de la Rubi, Eduardo Eyras

ABACBS Talk
7c - Epigenetics, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Sebastian Kurscheid
11:20

Topological structure analysis of chromatin interaction networks - Juris Viksna, Gatis Melkus, Edgars Celms, Karlis Cerans, Karlis Freivalds, Paulis Kikusts, Lelde Lace, Martins Opmanis, Darta Rituma, Peteris Rucevskis

GIW Paper
11:35

Impact of mutations in DNA methylation modification genes on genome-wide methylation landscapes and downstream gene activations in pan-cancer - Chai-Jin Lee, Hongryul Ahn, Dabin Jeong, Minwoo Pak, Ji Hwan Moon, Sun Kim

GIW Paper
11:50

Untangling chromatin structure from cell cycle in B cells with gene orientated Hi-C analysis - Hannah Coughlan, WingFuk Chan, Christine Keenan, Tim Johanson, Rhys Allan, Gordon Smyth

ABACBS Talk
12:05

An epigenetic clock for human skeletal muscle - Sarah Voisin, Harvey NR, Haupt LM, Griffiths LR, Ashton KJ, Coffey VG, Doering TM, Thompson JM, Cedernaes J, Benedict C, Lindholm ME, Craig JM, Rowland DS, Sharples AP, Horvath S, Eynon N

ABACBS Talk
7d - RNA biology, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Katarina Stuart
11:20

Identifying miRNA synergism using multiple-intervention causal inference - Junpeng Zhang, Vu Viet Hoang Pham, Lin Liu, Taosheng Xu, Buu Truong, Jiuyong Li, Nini Rao, Thuc Duy Le

GIW Paper
11:35

iPseU-NCP: Identifying RNA Pseudouridine sites using Random Forest and NCP-encoded features - Thanh-Hoang Nguyen-Vo, Quang Hong Nguyen, Trang Thi Thu Do, Thien-Ngan Nguyen, Susanto Rahardja, Binh Phu Nguyen

GIW Paper
11:50

Understanding the in vivo function of A-to-I RNA editing by ADARs - Xining Li, Alistair Chalk, Carl Walkley

ABACBS Talk
12:05

Nascent transcriptome analysis to characterise mRNA export - Enid Yi Ni Lam, Ewa Michalaka, Ashley Anderson, Dean Tyler, Toby Williams, Kirsty Carey, Vicky Tan, Amber Rucinski, Vihandha Wickramasinghe, Marcus Bantscheff, Paola Grandi, Rab Prinjha, Sarah-Jane Dawson, Mark Dawson

ABACBS Talk

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Lunch and Poster Session B

Posters have a maximum size of A0 in the portrait orientation.

Duration: 12:20 - 13:30

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Session 8 - Parallel Sessions

Duration: 13:30 - 14:45

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

8a - Single Cell Analytics 2, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Pengyi Yang
13:30

Stably expressed genes in single-cell RNA-sequencing - Julie Deeke and Johann Gagnon-Bartsch

GIW Paper
13:45

Autoencoder-based cluster ensembles for single-cell RNA-seq data analysis - Thomas Andrew Geddes, Taiyun Kim, Lihao Nan, James Geoffrey Burchfield, Jean Yee Hwa Yang, Dacheng Tao, Pengyi Yang

ABACBS Talk
14:00

Supervised deconvolution of population heterogeneities in single cell RNA-seq via similarity-based embeddings - Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, Yi Xie, Melissa J Davis

ABACBS Talk
14:15

Sample size estimation and multiscale classification of cells using single and multiple references. - Yingxin Lin, Yue Cao, Hani Jieun Kim, Agus Salim, Terence P. Speed, David Lin, Pengyi Yang, Jean Yee Hwa Yang

ABACBS Talk
14:30

schex avoids overplotting for large single cell RNA-sequencing datasets - Saskia Freytag, Ryan Lister

ABACBS Talk
8b - Metagenomics/Microbial genomics, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Igy Pang
13:30

LEMON: A Method to Construct the Local Strains at Horizontal Gene Transfer Sites in Gut Metagenomics - Chen Li, Yiqi Jiang, ShuaiCheng Li

GIW Paper
13:45

Deep in the Bowel: Highly Interpretable Neural Encoder-Decoder Networks Predict Gut Metabolites from Gut Microbiome - Vuong Le, Thomas P. Quinn, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

GIW Paper
14:00

Multi-omic profiling reveals associations between the gut mucosal microbiome, the metabolome, and host DNA methylation associated gene expression in patients with colorectal cancer - Qing Wang, Jianzhong Ye, Daiqiong Fang, Longxian Lv, Wenrui Wu, Ding Shi, Yating Li, Liya Yang, Xiaoyuan Bian, Jingjing Wu, Xianwan Jiang, Kaicen Wang, Qiangqiang Wang, Mark P. Hodson, Loïc M. Thibaut, Joshua W.K. Ho, Eleni Giannoulatou, Lanjuan Li

GIW Paper
14:15

Deep Analysis and Optimization of CARD Antibiotic Resistance Gene Discovery Models - Haobin Yao, Siu-Ming Yiu

GIW Paper
14:30

Evaluation of experimental protocols for shotgun whole-genome metagenomic discovery of antibiotic resistant genes - Ken Hung-On Yu, Xiunan Fang, Haobin Yao, Bond Ng, Tak Kwan Leung, Ling-Ling Wang, Chi Ho Lin, Agnes Sze Wah Chan, Wai Keung Leung, Suet Yi Leung, Joshua W. K. Ho

ABACBS Talk
8c - Data analytics 2, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Jinyan Li
13:30

Model-based cell clustering and population tracking for time-series flow cytometry data - Kodai Minoura, Ko Abe, Yuka Maeda, Hiroyoshi Nishikawa, Teppei Shimamura

GIW Paper
13:45

Integrative subspace clustering by common and specific decomposition for cancer subtype identification - Yin Guo, Huiran Li, Menglan Cai, Limin Li

GIW Paper
14:00

iProDNA-CapsNet: Predicting Protein-DNA Binding Residues using Capsule Neural Network - Binh Phu Nguyen, Quang Hong Nguyen, Giang-Nam Doan-Ngoc, Thanh-Hoang Nguyen-Vo, Susanto Rahardja

GIW Paper
14:15

Venn-diaNet : Venn diagram based network propagation analysis framework for comparing multiple biological experiments - Benjamin Hur, Dongwon Kang, Sangseon Lee, Ji Hwan Moon, Gung Lee, Sun Kim

GIW Paper
14:30

Integrating multiplex immunohistochemistry with gene expression to study the immune microenvironment of prostate cancer - Anna S. Trigos, Anu Pasam, Patricia Banks, Simon Keam, Heather Thorne, Catherine Mitchell, David Clouston, Declan Murphy, Damien Bolton, Phil Darcy, Ygal Haupt, Scot Williams, David Goode, Paul Neeson, Shahneen Sandhu

ABACBS Talk
8d - Genomics 2, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Mark Cowley
13:30

wtest: an integrated R package for genetic epistasis testing - Rui Sun, Xiaoxuan Xia, Ka Chun Chong, Benny Chung-Ying Zee, William Ka Kei Wu, Maggie Haitian Wang

GIW Paper
13:45

Fast and accurate microRNA search using CNN - Xubo Tang, Yanni Sun

GIW Paper
14:00

Benchmarking state-of-the-art genome assembly methods for eukaryotic genomes - Dean C Southwood, Rahul V Rane, Siu F Lee, John G Oakeshott, Shoba Ranganathan

ABACBS Talk
14:15

Optimal filtering of rare alleles enhances scores of intolerance to genetic variation - Loïc M. Thibaut, Eleni Giannoulatou

ABACBS Talk
14:30

Integrative Approaches in Functional Genomics to Identify Genetic Dependencies in Paediatric Cancer - Claire Sun , Duncan Crombie , Caroline Drinkwater, Dhanya Sooraj , Gabrielle Bradshaw , Claire Shi , Sarah Parackal, Dasun Fernando, Naama Neeman, Bryan Williams, Daniel Gough, Peter Downie, Jason Cain, Ron Firestein

ABACBS Talk

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Afternoon Tea

Duration: 14:45 - 15:15

Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map

Session 9, Closing Session and ABACBS conference awards

Duration: 15:15 - 17:00

Location: Wallace Theatre Click here for map

Chair: Aaron Darling

15:15   Best COMBINE talk.
15:30   Elaine Holmes - Bioinformatic strategies for enhanced metabolic phenotypic and biomarker recovery Internatinoal Keynote.
16:10   Jürgen Cox - Computational proteomics enhancements in MaxQuant by (deep) machine learning and ion mobility awareness. International Keynote.
16:50   Closing session, and ABACBS conference awards.
17:00   Social Drinks for Professional Bioinformaticians @ Alfred Hotel's beer garden 7 mins. walk from CPC. Please see map here: https://goo.gl/maps/rsZn1bjY6gqcaaZG7

Day 4 - Workshops Thursday 12th December 2019

Location: University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Building 10 (CB10)

Classrooms: CB10.03.480, CB10.03.470, CB10.03.450

Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/SXPhYTBZzC4AHFk87

Catering: Only morning and afternoon teas will be included as part of the workshop. Participants are encourage to purchase their own lunch at a variety of restaurants nearby the UTS precinct. Please see below for nearby lunch suggestions.

Morning 9 am - 12 noon (except Clinical Bioinformatics Symposium 9 am - 1 pm)

Snakemake Workshop

Classroom: CB10.03.480

Convener: Dr. Nathan Watson-Haigh

Clinical Bioinformatics Symposium

Click here to Download Program

Classroom: CB10.03.470

Organisers:

  • A/Prof Mark Cowley - Children’s Cancer Institute, Sydney, Australia

  • Dr Mark Pinese - Children’s Cancer Institute, Sydney, Australia

Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis On The Cloud

Classrooms: CB10.03.450

Instructors:

  • Ms. Xiunan Fang - The University of Hong Kong
  • Mr. Gordon Qian - The University of Hong Kong

Machine Learning Applications Using Amazon Cloud Workshop has been Cancelled and replaced by the Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis on the Cloud workshop above

Lunch 12 to 1 pm

Participants are encourage to purchase their own lunch at a variety of restaurants nearby the UTS precinct. Please see below for nearby lunch suggestions.

Afternoon 2 pm - 5 pm

GWAS, Machine Learning and the Cloud

Classrooms: CB10.03.470

Conveners: Dr. Natalie Twine and Dr. Arash Bayat

Proteomics Data Analysis Workshop

Classrooms: CB10.03.480

Convener: Prof. Jürgen Cox

Nearby Lunch suggestions

Penny Lane cafe is closeby

The Spicy Alley offers a lots of asian cuisine in a street hawker style setting.

MacDonald's and KFC