ABACBS 2015 Conference SCHEDULE
Abstracts are available for download here
Saturday 10 October
9:15
Welcome
Ashley Waardenberg (ABACBS Vice-President)
9:15
Session 1 (chair: Mirana Ramialison)
9:30-10:50
9:30
Mammalian Systems biology: FANTOM5 promoters, enhancers and cell type specific regulation
9:30
10:10
Qian Du (Selected Oral)
Interrogating the genome-wide relationship between Replication Timing and DNA Methylation in Cancer
10:10
10:30
Enid Lam (Selected Oral)
Elucidating the mechanism of aberrant gene expression in MLL leukaemia
10:30
10:50
Morning Tea
Served outside the auditorium entrance
10:50
Session 2 (chair: Joshua Ho)
11:10-12:20
11:10
Network Rewiring – analysing the variability, connectivity, and function of molecular interaction networks
11:10
11:40
Pengyi Yang (Selected Oral)
Reconstructing signalling networks from dynamic phosphoproteomics data
11:40
12:00
Saskia Freytag (Selected Oral)
brain-coX – a shin(y)ing web-application to interrogate human brain co-expression networks
12:00
12:20
Lunch
Served outside the auditorium entrance
12:20
Session 3 (chair: Brian Gloss)
13:20-14:40
13:20
Effectively using de novo assembled transcriptomes in non-model organisms and cancer
13:20
14:00
David Humphreys (Selected Oral)
Unbiased detection of circular RNA in high throughput sequencing data
14:00
14:20
Amali Thrimawithana (Selected Oral)
Genome assembly in presence of its intimate associates – Leptospermum as a case study
14:20
14:40
Afternoon Tea
Served outside the auditorium entrance
14:40
Session 4 (chair: Richard Edwards)
15:00-16:20
15:40
Jovana Maksimovic (Selected Oral)
Disentangling Genetics and Methylation in the Major Histocompatibility Complex
15:40
16:00
David Powell (Selected Oral)
Differential Gene Expression Exploration using Degust
16:00
16:20
Fast forward poster session (chair: David Lovell)
click "Fast Forward Session Presenter Details" at top of menu for speakers and titles
16:20
17:00
Poster session and drinks
@ Garvan Galleria
17:00
18:30
Dinner
Served @ Garvan de novo
18:30
Sunday 11 October
Session 5 (chair: Ashley Waardenberg)
9:30-10:50
9:30
Deciphering root causes, driver mutations and therapeutic opportunities from Cancer Genomes
9:30
10:10
Alan Rubin (Selected Oral)
Statistical methods and software for functionally characterizing every single mutation in Your Favorite Gene
10:10
10:30
Cecilia Deng (Selected Oral)
Efficient project management for better reproducible bioinformatics analysis
10:30
10:50
Morning Tea
Served outside the auditorium entrance
10:50
Session 6 (chair: Nicola Armstrong)
11:10-12:40
11:40
Djordje Djordjevic (Selected Oral)
XGSA: An unbiased statistical method to perform cross-species gene set analysis
11:40
12:00
Rebecca Poulos (COMBINE Symposium Best Talk)
Transcription and differential DNA repair underlies promoter mutation hotspots in cancer genomes
12:00
12:20
Alexandra Essebier (Selected Oral)
Identify functional patterns in high throughput binding assays
12:20
12:40
ABACBS 2015 closing + "prizes and awards"
Nicola Armstrong & Richard Edwards (Conference Chairs) and Tony Papenfuss (ABACBS President)
12:40
13:00
Lunch
Served outside the auditorium entrance
13:00
Conference Ends
See you next year!
Fast Forward Session Presenter Details
Saturday 10 October - 4:20pm
FF1. David Goode
Pros and cons of sequencing with Agilent’s Haloplex target enrichment system
FF2. Lingxiao Zhou
Combining spatial and chemical information for clustering pharmacophores
FF3. Tane Hunter
Circulating tumour DNA reflects clonal evolution in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
FF4. Amir Kamali
Bioinformatics Software Testing
FF5. Richard Edwards
The SMRT Way to Sequence a Yeast Genome
FF6. Timothy G. Amos
Evidence for viral causes of cancer in prostate cancer transcriptomes and genomes
FF7. Harriet Dashnow
Comparing algorithms to genotype short tandem repeats in next-generation sequencing data
FF8. Jan Buchmann
Reverse engineering viral evolution
FF9. Minh Duc Cao
Real-time Identification of Pathogenic Antibiotics Resistance Profiles with Oxford Nanopore MinION Sequencing
FF10. Benjamin Woodcroft
Whole-proteome prediction of protein localisation in malaria parasites
FF11. Aidan Tay
Proteomic Validation of Transcript Isoforms, Including Those Assembled from RNA-Seq Data
FF12. Martin Smith
Functional transcriptome annotation by clustering structural RNA motifs
FF13. Stuart Lee
Assessing clonality in malaria parasites from massively parallel sequencing data
FF14. Wimalanathan Kokulapalan
Maize - GO Annotation Methods Evaluation and Review (Maize-GAMER)
FF15. Simon Gladman
The Microbial Genomics Virtual Laboratory