Program
The times indicated in the following program are in Sydney, Australia (AEDT) time zone.
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Tuesday November 24th
| Plant Genomics (Session Chair: Jen Taylor) | Metagenomics (Session Chair: Aaron Darling) | |
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| 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 (Session Chair: Sonika Tyagi) | Biomed (Session Chair: Jimmy Breen) | |
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| 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 | |
| 17:30 | End | End |
Wednesday November 25th
| Phylodynamics & COVID19 (Session Chair: Fabio Zanini) | Non-model (Session Chair: Alexie Papanicolaou) | |
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| 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 (Session Chair: Jean Yang | Transcriptomics / RNA (Session Chair: Jean Wen) | |
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| 14:30 | Invited talk: Kim-Anh Lê Cao Navigating through ‘omics data: a multivariate per… |
Invited talk: Yue Wan Direct RNA sequencing identifies isoform specific … |
| 14:40 | ||
| 14:50 | Yingxin Lin Transfer learning for data integration of single-c… |
Oak Hatzimanolis Implementing an integrated analysis to identify an… |
| 15:00 | Simon Sadedin Exploring Neural Network models for CNV detection … |
Vincent Corbin Moving beyond RNA sequence: uncovering the functio… |
| 15:10 | Ebony Watson Image-based Predictive Modelling for the Character… |
Sasdekumar Loganathan Application of mixture model to RNA-seq data to di… |
| 15:20 | Al J Abadi Integrating multi-modal single-cell studies with a… |
Angel Liang RNA splicing is a hierarchical supernetwork that c… |
| 15:30 | Legana Fingerhut ampir: an R package for fast genome-wide predictio… |
Ruebena Dawes Features that determine 5’ cryptic splice site sel… |
| 15:40 | 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)
Thursday November 26th
| Indigenous Genomics (Session Chair: Bastien Llamas) | Long reads (Session Chair: Lachlan Coin) | |
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| 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… |
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| 13:30 | break | break |
Networking session (invited speakers of the day, topic tables, sponsors)
| Genomics (Session Chair: Sarah Kummerfeld) | Single cell (Session Chair: Ellis Patrick) | |
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| 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 - Renzo Balboa Alu Repeat Diversity in the Human Genome |
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| 16:50 | Best poster award | |
| 17:00 | Conference close |