Program

COMBINE Student Symposium

COMBINE Student Symposium

Symposium on Bioinformatics Engineering and Industry (SBEI)

Symposium on Bioinformatics Engineering and Industry (SBEI)

Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception

Registration

Registration

Welcome to Country

Welcome to Country

Opening

Opening

[AE] Agricultural and Environmental Omics

[AE] Agricultural and Environmental Omics

Understanding and conserving coral reefs through genomics - Ira Cooke, James Cook University

Understanding and conserving coral reefs through genomics - Ira Cooke, James Cook University

Unveiling the functional landscape of healthy coral holobionts through metatranscriptomics – Kshitij Tandon, The University of Melbourne

Unveiling the functional landscape of healthy coral holobionts through metatranscriptomics – Kshitij Tandon, The University of Melbourne

Putting the RAT into integRATed profiling: A new way to annotate shotgun metagenomes – Ernestina Hauptfeld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Putting the RAT into integRATed profiling: A new way to annotate shotgun metagenomes – Ernestina Hauptfeld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes – Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Flinders University

Phables: from fragmented assemblies to high-quality bacteriophage genomes – Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Flinders University

Morning tea

Morning tea

Using nanopore sequencing to capture genome variation for breeding eco-friendly, productive animals in response to a changing climate – Elizabeth Ross, The University of Queensland

Using nanopore sequencing to capture genome variation for breeding eco-friendly, productive animals in response to a changing climate – Elizabeth Ross, The University of Queensland

[HH] Human Health and Translation

[HH] Human Health and Translation

Identification of target genes underlying genetic associations for complex traits – Jian Yang, Westlake University, China

Identification of target genes underlying genetic associations for complex traits – Jian Yang, Westlake University, China

Leveraging genomics to investigate the anti-depressive effects of statins – Jiayue-Clara Jiang, The University of Queensland

Leveraging genomics to investigate the anti-depressive effects of statins – Jiayue-Clara Jiang, The University of Queensland

Pan-organ ResOurce for Molecular Allograft Dysfunction (PROMAD) provides a platform for precision medicine in organ transplantation – Harry Robertson, The University of Sydney

Pan-organ ResOurce for Molecular Allograft Dysfunction (PROMAD) provides a platform for precision medicine in organ transplantation – Harry Robertson, The University of Sydney

COMBINE Winner Talk - DDMut-PPI: predicting effects of mutations on protein-protein interactions using deep learning - Yunzhuo Zhou, The University of Queensland

COMBINE Winner Talk - DDMut-PPI: predicting effects of mutations on protein-protein interactions using deep learning - Yunzhuo Zhou, The University of Queensland

Lunch

Lunch

ABACBS Annual General Meeting

ABACBS Annual General Meeting

[PE] Phylogenetics and Evolution

[PE] Phylogenetics and Evolution

Using phylogeographical signal of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis to train a hierarchical machine learning model to rapidly predict source attribution – Lauren Cowley, University of Bath, UK

Using phylogeographical signal of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis to train a hierarchical machine learning model to rapidly predict source attribution – Lauren Cowley, University of Bath, UK

SingleM and Sandpiper: Robust microbial community profiling from metagenomic data – Ben Woodcroft, Queensland University of Technology

SingleM and Sandpiper: Robust microbial community profiling from metagenomic data – Ben Woodcroft, Queensland University of Technology

AEon: Global Genetic Ancestry Estimation from WGS data – Naomi Warren, Children’s Cancer Institute

AEon: Global Genetic Ancestry Estimation from WGS data – Naomi Warren, Children’s Cancer Institute

ASR curation – constructing meaningful datasets for ancestral sequence reconstruction – Gabriel Foley, The University of Queensland

ASR curation – constructing meaningful datasets for ancestral sequence reconstruction – Gabriel Foley, The University of Queensland

Recent advances on improving phylogenomic inference and the IQ-TREE software – Minh Bui, Australian National University

Recent advances on improving phylogenomic inference and the IQ-TREE software – Minh Bui, Australian National University

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

[EL] Epigenomics / Long Read Sequencing

[EL] Epigenomics / Long Read Sequencing

Computational methods for analysing Oxford Nanopore RNA sequencing data – Heejung Shim, The University of Melbourne

Computational methods for analysing Oxford Nanopore RNA sequencing data – Heejung Shim, The University of Melbourne

From signal to knowledge: SWARM for accurate mRNA modification detection – Stefan Prodic, Australian National University

From signal to knowledge: SWARM for accurate mRNA modification detection – Stefan Prodic, Australian National University

A Bag-Of-Motif Model captures context-specific distal regulatory elements – Carina Paola Comejo Paramo, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

A Bag-Of-Motif Model captures context-specific distal regulatory elements – Carina Paola Comejo Paramo, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Elucidating the extent of coordinated splicing of exons in the mammalian brain – Pallavi Gupta, The University of Queensland

Elucidating the extent of coordinated splicing of exons in the mammalian brain – Pallavi Gupta, The University of Queensland

Rapid and sensitive read-based profiling of viruses with conserved sequence tags - Rossen Zhao, Queensland University of Technology

Rapid and sensitive read-based profiling of viruses with conserved sequence tags - Rossen Zhao, Queensland University of Technology

Transcriptomic changes as a marker of liver transplant viability during normothermic perfusion - Solal Chauquet, The University of Queensland

Transcriptomic changes as a marker of liver transplant viability during normothermic perfusion - Solal Chauquet, The University of Queensland

Multi omics profiling identifies host-microbe interactions relevant for the stability of the transplanted lungs - Giulia Iacono, Monash University

Multi omics profiling identifies host-microbe interactions relevant for the stability of the transplanted lungs - Giulia Iacono, Monash University

Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates - Sarah Shah, The University of Queensland

Massive genome reduction predates the divergence of Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates - Sarah Shah, The University of Queensland

Deciphering brain region-specific m6A epitranscriptomic modification signatures: isoform-level insights with long-read sequencing - Josie Gleeson, The University of Melbourne

Deciphering brain region-specific m6A epitranscriptomic modification signatures: isoform-level insights with long-read sequencing - Josie Gleeson, The University of Melbourne

Squigulator: simulation of nanopore sequencing signal data with tunable noise parameters - Hasindu Gamaarachchi, The University of New South Wales

Squigulator: simulation of nanopore sequencing signal data with tunable noise parameters - Hasindu Gamaarachchi, The University of New South Wales

Poster Session 1 (Themes: AE, HH, PE, and EL)

Poster Session 1 (Themes: AE, HH, PE, and EL)

Free time

Free time

Pre-dinner drinks

Pre-dinner drinks

Conference dinner

Conference dinner

Registration

Registration

[ML] Machine Learning for Discovery

[ML] Machine Learning for Discovery

Leveraging deep learning to improve our understanding of diseases and complex traits – Farhad Hormozdiari, HealthAI, Google Research, USA

Leveraging deep learning to improve our understanding of diseases and complex traits – Farhad Hormozdiari, HealthAI, Google Research, USA

Deep amortisation for improved rare cell type detection – Ellen Visscher, University of Oxford, UK

Deep amortisation for improved rare cell type detection – Ellen Visscher, University of Oxford, UK

Rational antibody affinity maturation using graph-based signatures – Yoochan Myung, The University of Queensland

Rational antibody affinity maturation using graph-based signatures – Yoochan Myung, The University of Queensland

CUPPA: A machine learning classifier for determining the tissue of origin for cancers of unknown primary using whole genome and transcriptome data – Luan Nguyen, Hartwig Medical Foundation, The Netherlands

CUPPA: A machine learning classifier for determining the tissue of origin for cancers of unknown primary using whole genome and transcriptome data – Luan Nguyen, Hartwig Medical Foundation, The Netherlands

Enhancing AAV gene therapy: Machine learning approaches to overcome packaging limitations in capsids – Anne Klein, CSIRO

Enhancing AAV gene therapy: Machine learning approaches to overcome packaging limitations in capsids – Anne Klein, CSIRO

AI-driven risk stratification of tumor subpopulations from scRNA-seq using Phenotype Algebra – Namrata Bhattacharya, Queensland University of Technology

AI-driven risk stratification of tumor subpopulations from scRNA-seq using Phenotype Algebra – Namrata Bhattacharya, Queensland University of Technology

Morning tea

Morning tea

Machine learning integration of imaging and sequencing data improves cancer diagnosis and prognosis – Quan Nguyen, QIMR Berghofer and The University of Queensland

Machine learning integration of imaging and sequencing data improves cancer diagnosis and prognosis – Quan Nguyen, QIMR Berghofer and The University of Queensland

Platinum Sponsor Talk - The complete solution and interpretation algorithms for Stereo-seq datasets – Mingyan Fang, BGI-Research

Platinum Sponsor Talk - The complete solution and interpretation algorithms for Stereo-seq datasets – Mingyan Fang, BGI-Research

[BD] Big Data Infrastructure

[BD] Big Data Infrastructure

Supporting data-driven science at the Sanger Institute – James McCafferty, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

Supporting data-driven science at the Sanger Institute – James McCafferty, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

The national Nextflow Tower Service for Australian researchers – Ziad Al Bkhetan, Australian BioCommons

The national Nextflow Tower Service for Australian researchers – Ziad Al Bkhetan, Australian BioCommons

The Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA): intersecting biodiversity data with genomics data for enhanced findability – Kathryn Hall, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO

The Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA): intersecting biodiversity data with genomics data for enhanced findability – Kathryn Hall, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO

Atlas approximations democratise access to whole-body cell atlases for artificial and human intelligence – Fabio Zanini, The University of New South Wales

Atlas approximations democratise access to whole-body cell atlases for artificial and human intelligence – Fabio Zanini, The University of New South Wales

Empowering global healthcare: An advanced population genomics pipeline for national genome projects – Taylor Tian, MGI Australia

Empowering global healthcare: An advanced population genomics pipeline for national genome projects – Taylor Tian, MGI Australia

The topological properties of the protein universe - Christian Degnbol Madsen, The University of Melbourne

The topological properties of the protein universe - Christian Degnbol Madsen, The University of Melbourne

Ensemble deep learning of embeddings for clustering multimodal single-cell omics data - Lijia Yu, The University of Sydney

Ensemble deep learning of embeddings for clustering multimodal single-cell omics data - Lijia Yu, The University of Sydney

A data lakehouse for childhood cancer precision medicine - James Bradley, Children’s Cancer Institute

A data lakehouse for childhood cancer precision medicine - James Bradley, Children’s Cancer Institute

Pharokka and Megapharokka: enabling automatic, consistent, scalable and sensitive annotation of the bacteriophage genomic universe - George Bouras, The University of Adelaide

Pharokka and Megapharokka: enabling automatic, consistent, scalable and sensitive annotation of the bacteriophage genomic universe - George Bouras, The University of Adelaide

Evaluating spatially variable gene detection methods for spatial transcriptomics data - Carissa Chen, The University of Sydney

Evaluating spatially variable gene detection methods for spatial transcriptomics data - Carissa Chen, The University of Sydney

Flexiplex: a noise-tolerant sequence searching and demultiplexing tool for single cell data - Oliver Cheng, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Flexiplex: a noise-tolerant sequence searching and demultiplexing tool for single cell data - Oliver Cheng, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

RISER enables real-time biochemical-free enrichment or depletion of RNA classes during direct RNA sequencing - Alexandra Sneddon, Australian National University

RISER enables real-time biochemical-free enrichment or depletion of RNA classes during direct RNA sequencing - Alexandra Sneddon, Australian National University

Lunch

Lunch

Career Fair

Career Fair

Poster Session 2 (Themes: ML, BD, and OM)

Poster Session 2 (Themes: ML, BD, and OM)

[OM] Cutting Edge Omics Technologies and Analyses

[OM] Cutting Edge Omics Technologies and Analyses

Interpretable deep learning of single-cell multi-omics uncovers cell-type-specific multimodality gene regulatory programs – Hani Jieun Kim, Children’s Medical Research Institute

Interpretable deep learning of single-cell multi-omics uncovers cell-type-specific multimodality gene regulatory programs – Hani Jieun Kim, Children’s Medical Research Institute

Spatial metabolomics unleashed: A roadmap for early adoption computational strategies – Saskia Freytag, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Spatial metabolomics unleashed: A roadmap for early adoption computational strategies – Saskia Freytag, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea

Finding spatially relevant marker genes in image based spatial transcriptomics data – Xinyi Jin, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Finding spatially relevant marker genes in image based spatial transcriptomics data – Xinyi Jin, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Tracking single molecules one by one – Yih-Chih Chan, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Tracking single molecules one by one – Yih-Chih Chan, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

AI and aging – Jackie Han, Peking University, China

AI and aging – Jackie Han, Peking University, China

Awards and closing

Awards and closing