Opening & Welcome
Chris Love
Senior Clinical Bioinformatician, Children’s Cancer Institute
APBC Symposium 2026
10 min
1. Population-Scale Bioinformatics
Infrastructure, national initiatives and the Australian genomics landscape
Chair: Belinda Cornes
Daniel MacArthur
Director, Centre for Population Genomics
Lyn Griffiths
Director, Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health at QUT
Jimmy Breen & Adam Heterick
Chief Data Scientist & Bioinformatics Officer, Black Ochre Data Labs
Jeff Christiansen
Director, Australian BioCommons
Q&A
Morning tea
2. Clinical Genomics in Practice
Comprehensive genomic profiling, regulatory frameworks and clinical bottlenecks
Chairs: Roxane Legaie & Amit Kumar
Simon Sadedin
Head of Clinical Bioinformatics, Victorian Clinical Genetics Service
Lynn Fink
Laboratory Director, LifeStrands Genomics
Eva Chan
Senior Clinical Bioinformatician, Hartwig Medical Foundation
Claire Lillee
Principal Accreditation Specialist, NATA
Q&A and panel discussion
Bottlenecks in clinical bioinformatics
Lunch
3. Applied & Environmental Bioinformatics
Environmental genomics, metagenomics, agri-bio, wastewater, microbiome and pathogen surveillance
Sponsored by AGRF · Chairs: Anubhav Kaphle & Adele Barugahare
Michael Stumpf
Chief Scientific Officer / FAAS, CellBauHaus
Clare Sloggett
Lead Developer, AusTrakka National Pathogen Surveillance Platform
Monica Nolan
Director, Promoting Health4All, Australian CDC National Wastewater Surveillance Program
Matthew Lewsey
Director, Australian Plant Phenomics Network / ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space, La Trobe University
Matthew Andrews
Senior Bioinformatician, AGRF
Q&A
Afternoon tea
4. Bioinformatics Engineering
Tools, pipelines, scalability and the future of bioinformatics infrastructure
Sponsored by Databricks · Chair: Mansi Aggarwal
Allan Leung
Solutions Architect, Databricks
James Bradley
Bioinformatics Data Engineer, Children’s Cancer Institute
Greg Bass
Senior Scientist in Translational Bioinformatics, CSL
Beyond the model: integrating AI into production bioinformatics workflows
Anna Quaglieri
Senior Bioinformatics Data Scientist, Mass Dynamics
Q&A
Limitations, gains and future challenges in adoption of AI in bioinformatics production workflows
5. Closing session
Amit Kumar
APBC update
Chris Love
Closing remarks
Event close
Draft program. Speakers, topics and timings may change.
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on which this event will take place. We honour their enduring connection to land, waters, and culture, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
