Program 

DateDayStartEventSiteRoom
31-Oct-16Mon8:30COMBINE: RegistrationQUTGP-P514
  9:00Session 1QUTGP-P514
  10:25Morning tea + postersQUTP-Level5
  11:00Session 2QUTGP-P514
  12:00Lunch + postersQUTP-Level5
  13:15Group photoQUTP-Level5
  13:30Session 3QUTGP-P514
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTBotanic Bar
  15:30Career PanelQUTBotanic Bar
  17:00AwardsQUTBotanic Bar
  17:15Break  
  18:30Trivia nightQUTBotanic Bar
1-Nov-16Tue.8:00AB3ACBS Day 1: RegistrationQUTGP-P514
  9:00Session 1: Microbes. Chair: Tony ParkerQUTGP-P514
  10:30Morning tea + postersQUTP-Level5
  11:00Session 2: Cancer. Chair Nic WaddellQUTGP-P514
  12:30Lunch + postersQUTP-L6 Terrace
  13:30Session 3: Statistics. Chair: Jim HoganQUTGP-P514
  15:00Afternoon tea + postersQUTP-Level5
  15:30Session 4: Plants, animals. Chair: Paula MartinezQUTGP-P514
  17:00Fast Forward and Poster Session. Chair: David LovellQUTThe Cube
  18:30Conference DinnerSouth BankMado's
2-Nov-16Wed.8:00AB3ACBS Day 2: RegistrationQUTGP-P514
  9:00Session 5: Evolution: Chair: Peter PrentisQUTGP-P514
  10:30Morning Tea and Illumina seminarQUTP-Level5
  11:00Session 6: 'Omics. Chair: Brett WilliamsQUTGP-P514
  12:30LunchQUTP-L6 Terrace
  13:00ABACBS AGMQUTGP-P514
  14:00Session 7: Disease. Chair: Leah RobertsQUTGP-P514
  15:15Afternoon tea + postersQUTP-Level5
  15:40Session 8: Systems. Chair: Annette McGrathQUTGP-P514
  17:00Close  
3-Nov-16Thu.9:00Bioconductor 1QUTGP-Q228
  10:30Morning TeaQUTGP-Q228
  11:00Bioconductor 2QUTGP-Q228
  12:00LunchQUTGP-Q228
  13:00Bioconductor 3QUTGP-Q228
  14:00Shiny 1QUTGP-Q228
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTGP-Q228
  15:30Shiny 2QUTGP-Q228
  17:00CloseQUTGP-Q228
3-Nov-16Thu.9:00Best Practice in Bioinformatics TrainingQUTGP-O303a
  10:30Morning TeaQUTGP-O303a
  11:00Session 2QUTGP-O303a
  12:30LunchQUTGP-O303a
  13:30Session 3QUTGP-O303a
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTGP-O303a
  15:30Session 4QUTGP-O303a
  17:30CloseQUTGP-O303a
  18:30Evening gathering (TBA)  
4-Nov-16Fri.9:00Best Practice in Bioinformatics TrainingQUTGP-O303a
  10:30Morning TeaQUTGP-O303a
  11:00Session 2QUTGP-O303a
  12:30LunchQUTGP-O303a
  13:30Session 3QUTGP-O303a
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTGP-O303a
  15:30Session 4QUTGP-O303a
  17:00CloseQUTGP-O303a
4-Nov-16Fri.9:00Bioconductor Asia-Pacific MeetingQUTGP-Q228
  10:30Morning TeaQUTGP-Q228
  11:00Session 2QUTGP-Q228
  12:30LunchQUTGP-Q228
  13:30Session 3QUTGP-Q228
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTGP-Q228
  15:30Session 4QUTGP-Q228
  17:00CloseQUTGP-Q228
4-Nov-16Fri.9:00Introduction to mixOmicsQUTGP-Q218
  10:30Morning TeaQUTGP-Q218
  11:00Session 2QUTGP-Q218
  12:30LunchQUTGP-Q218
  13:30Session 3QUTGP-Q218
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTGP-Q218
  15:30Session 4QUTGP-Q218
  17:00CloseQUTGP-Q218
7-Nov-16Mon.9:00GOBLET AGM 1QUTGP-O303a
8-Nov-16Tue9:00GOBLET AGM 2QUTGP-O303a
9-Nov-16Wed9:00GOBLET AGM 3QUTGP-O303a
  13:30CloseQUTGP-O303a
10-Nov-16Thu.9:00RNA Seq CourseQUTGP-O508
  10:30Morning TeaQUTGP-O508
  11:00Session 2QUTGP-O508
  12:30LunchQUTGP-O508
  13:30Session 3QUTGP-O508
  15:00Afternoon teaQUTGP-O508
  15:30Session 4QUTGP-O508
  17:00CloseQUTGP-O508

COMBINE Presentations

COMBINE Symposium Oct 31

SessionSlotTitleAuthors
11Computational workflows for research students: towards a reproducible researchSoroor Hediyeh-Zadeh(a), Melissa J Davis (a)
 2Applying machine learning to GWAS analysis of major memory traits(a) Nesli Avgan, (a) Rodney A Lea, (a) Miles Benton, (a) Heidi G Sutherland, (b) Lauren G Spriggens, (b) David HK Shum, (a) Larisa M Haupt, (a) Lyn R Griffiths
Morning tea
21A transcriptional signature for TGFβ-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancerMomeneh Foroutan (a,b), Joseph Cursons (b,c,d), Soroor Hediyeh-Zadeh (b), Erik W. Thompson (a,e,f), Melissa J. Davis (b,g)
 2Simplifying simulation of single-cell RNA sequencingLuke Zappia (a,b), Belinda Phipson (a) and Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
 3Accurate and robust normalization of Nanostring nCounter gene expression dataRamyar Molania(a,b), Terence P Speed(c,d), Alexander Dobrovic(e,f)
Lunch
31Investigating the 3' untranslated region of mRNA in order to understand the drivers of metastasis in primary triple negative breast tumoursAndrew Pattison (a), Cameron Johnstone (a,b), Paul Harrison (a,c), Robin Anderson (b), David Powell (c) and Traude Beilharz (a)
 2Insertion sequence elements are drivers of diversification in the broad host range aquatic pathogen Streptococcus iniaeAreej Alsheikh-Hussain (c), Nouri L. Ben Zakour (a), Andrew C. Barnes (b) and Scott A. Beatson (c)
 3Scaffolding and completing genome assemblies in real-time with nanopore sequencingSon Hoang Nguyen, Minh Duc Cao, Devika Ganesamoorthy, Tania Da Silva Duarte, Alysha G. Elliott, Matthew A. Cooper, Lachlan J.M. Coin

 

AB3ACBS Presentations

Last minute change: please note that due to international travel issues,

  • Darryl Reeves will present Probabilistic Inference and Shared Parameter Learning for Metagenomic Sequence Analysis at 2:30pm on Wednesday
  • Harriet Dashnow will present Detecting pathogenic STR expansions in next-gen sequencing data at 10am on Tuesday

AB3ACBS Nov 1

  TitleAuthors
11Evolutionary epidemiology of successful bacterial pathogensNouri Ben Zakour
 2Exploiting extremes of Legionella pneumophila genomic diversity for accurate source attributionAndrew H. Buultjens (a), (b), Kyra Y. L. Chua (c), Sarah L. Baines (a), Jason Kwong (a), (b), (c), Wei Gao (b), Mark B. Schultz (a), (c), Zoe Cutcher (d), (e), Stuart Adcock (d), Susan Ballard (a), Takehiro Tomita (a), Nela Subasinghe (a), Glen Carter (b), (c), Sacha J. Pidot (b), (c), Lucinda Franklin (d), Torsten Seemann (c), (f), Anders Gonçalves Da Silva (a), (c), Benjamin P. Howden (a), (b), (c), Timothy P. Stinear (b), (c)
 3Detecting pathogenic STR expansions in next-gen sequencing dataHarriet Dashnow (a,b) and Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
 4HoloVir: Taxonomic and functional analysis of viral metagenomic communities.Patrick W Laffy(a), Elisha M Wood-Charlson(b), Dmitrij Turaev(c), Karen Weynberg(a), Emmanuelle Botte(a), Madeleine van Oppen(a,d), Nicole S Webster(a), Thomas Rattei(c)
Morning tea
21Taking the confusion out of fusions: Structural mutation detection in cancer research and diagnosticsAndreas Schreiber
 2Exploring Pan-Cancer Network Relationships Between Somatic Changes and Expression Profiles with PACMENShila Ghazanfar (a,b), Jean Yee Hwa Yang (a)
 3Consequences of Drug Dose Modulation on Clonal DynamicsDavid Goode (a,b), Sherene Loi (b,c), Davide Ferrari (d), Anthony Papenfuss (a,e)
 4Functional mutations form at CTCF/cohesin binding sites in melanoma due to uneven nucleotide excision repair across the motifRebecca C. Poulos (a), Julie A. I. Thoms (a), Yi Fang Guan (a), Ashwin Unnikrishnan (a), John E. Pimanda (a,b) and Jason W. H. Wong (a)
 5Tracking clonal evolution in cancer from multiple samplesChristoffer Flensburg, Ian Majewski
Lunch
31Tools for comparing and combining RNA-seq resultsMatt Ritchie
 2CIDR: Ultrafast and accurate clustering through imputation for single-cell RNA-Seq dataPaul Lin
 3Gene length bias in single cell RNA-seq dataBelinda Phipson (a), Luke Zappia (a,b) and Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
 4Computational methods to examine micro-RNA targeting of interacting protein networksJoseph Cursons & Melissa J Davis
 5FRY: A Fast Approximation to ROAST Gene Set Test with Mean Aggregated Set StatisticsGöknur Giner (a,b) and Gordon K. Smyth (a,c)
Afternoon tea
41Plant systematics to cancer biology: genome-wide patterns and organismal evolutionKate L. Hertweck
 2Whole methylome analysis of grapevine (Vitis vinifera) reveals tissue specific DNA methylation variationBreen J (a,b), Rodriguez Lopez CM (b), De Bei R (b), David R (c), Searle I (d), Collins C (c)
 3Mighty Morphin FASTA FilesAndrew Lonsdale (a)
 4SuperTranscript: a compact reference for the transcriptomeNadia M Davidson (1), Anthony DK Hawkins (1) and Alicia Oshlack (1,2)
 5Small Complementary RnA Mapper (SCRAM): a tool for studying small interfering RNA biogenesis in plantsFletcher SJ (a,b), Mitter N (b) and Carroll BJ (a)

AB3ACBS Wednesday Nov 2

  TitleAuthors
51Phylogenomic analysis and molecular evolutionary clocksSimon Ho
 2Investigating the evolution of new biochemical pathways in baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaeÅsa Pérez-Bercoff (a), Tonia L. Russell (b), Philip J. L. Bell (c), Paul V. Attfield (c) and Richard J. Edwards (a)
 3Identification of allelic-specific methylation profiles across generations in the Norfolk Island genetic isolateMiles Benton (a), Rod Lea (a), Nicole White (b), Daniel Kennedy (b), Heidi Sutherland (a), Larisa Haupt (a), Kerrie Mengersen (b) and Lyn Griffiths (a)
 4Estimating genetic similarity with the k-mer Weighted Inner Product (kWIP)Kevin Murray (a), Cheng Soon Ong (b, c), Christfried Webers (b,c), Justin Borevitz (a), Norman Warthman (a)
 5De novo characterisation of RNA structure motifs from ENCODE RIPseq dataMartin A. Smith (a), Stefan E. Seemann (b), Luis R. Arriola-Martinez (a), Xiucheng Quek (a), John S. Mattick (a)
Morning tea
61Metabolomics - an important piece in the 'omics puzzleUte Roessner
 2EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR)Pip Griffin (a), Sonika Tyagi (b), Ira Cooke (c), Philipp E. Bayer (d), David Edwards (d), Dominique Gorse (e), Saravanan Dayalan (f), Sylvain Foret (g), Jac Charlesworth (h), Steven Androulakis (i), Marc Wilkins (j), Rob Cook (e), Malcolm McConville (f), Richard Edwards (j), Madison Flannery (a), Simon Gladman (a), Andrew Lonie (a, k) & Maria Victoria Schneider (l)
 3Through the looking glass: using Monocle to visualise methylation array dataJovana Maksimovic (a), Yuxia Zhang (c,d,e), David Martino (a,c,f,g), Richard Saffrey (a,c), Len Harrison (c,d), Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
 4Big data from a little proteolysis: Combining multiple omics platforms to identify novel functions of a protease associated with prostate cancerRuth Fuhrman-Luck (a), Marcus Hastie (b), Thomas Stoll (b), Oded Kleifeld (c), Bosco Ho (d), Melanie Lehman (a), Anja Rockstroh (a), Thomas Kryza (a), Carson Stephens (a), Colleen Nelson (a), Jeffrey Gorman (b), Daniela Loessner (e) and Judith Clements (a)
 5Geometric map-reduce algorithms for alignment-free sequence comparisonLawrence Buckingham (a), Timothy Chappell (a), Shlomo Geva (a), Paul Greenfield (b), James M. Hogan (a), Wayne Kelly (a), Dimitri Perrin (a)
Lunch and ABACBS Annual General Meeting
71TBACOMBINE Student
 2GRIDSS: sensitive and specific genomic rearrangement detection using positional de Bruijn graph assemblyDaniel L Cameron (a,b), Anthony T Papenfuss (a,b,c)
 3Probabilistic Inference and Shared Parameter Learning for Metagenomic Sequence AnalysisDarryl Reeves (a, b, c) and Christopher E. Mason (a,b,c,d)
 4BootNet: a bootstrapping application for GLMnet modelling to identify robust classifiers in genomics dataRod Lea (a), Nicole White (b), Ray Blick (c), Macartney-Coxson (c), Daniel Kennedy (b), Lyn Griffiths (a), and Miles Benton (a)
 5Assessing the Practicality of Oxford Nanopore Sequencing in Clinical DiagnosticsAlexis Lucattini (a,b), Lavinia Gordon (a), Matt Ritchie (b)
Afternoon tea
81How do vulnerabilities left during the evolution of cellular networks set the stage for cancer?Trigos, A.S. (a,b), Pearson, R.B. (b,c,d), Papenfuss, A.T. (a,b,e), Goode, D.L. (a,b)
 2TCP-seq, a novel technique for investigating mechanisms and regulation of eukaryotic translation initiationStuart K. Archer(a,b), Nikolay E. Shirokikh(a,c), Steve Androulakis(b), Traude H. Beilharz(d), and Thomas Preiss(a,e)
 3The Road to Utopia: challenges in linking literature and research dataTeresa Attwood

All Presentations

IDPresentationTitleAuthors
1PosterInsights into the signalling pathways studies of GPR139 and impacts of their inhibitors using systems biology and pharmacokinetics(a, b)Aman Chandra Kaushik, (a) Deeksha Gautam, (a) Shakti Sahi
2PosterDe novo assembly of Sugarcane leaf RNAseq data: A cluster and merge approachHertweck, Kate (a), Wathen-Dunn, Kate (b, c)
3Oral: COMBINEComputational workflows for research students: towards a reproducible researchSoroor Hediyeh-Zadeh(a), Melissa J Davis (a)
4Oral: AB3ACBSExploring Pan-Cancer Network Relationships Between Somatic Changes and Expression Profiles with PACMENShila Ghazanfar (a,b), Jean Yee Hwa Yang (a)
5PosterEstablishing Cell Composition in Microarray and RNA-seq DataSaskia Freytag (a), Johann Gagnon-Bartsch (b), Terry Speed (c) and Melanie Bahlo (a)
6Oral: COMBINEInvestigating the 3' untranslated region of mRNA in order to understand the drivers of metastasis in primary triple negative breast tumoursAndrew Pattison (a), Cameron Johnstone (a,b), Paul Harrison (a,c), Robin Anderson (b), David Powell (c) and Traude Beilharz (a)
7PosterPrediction of disulfide bond dihedral angles based on chemical shiftsQuentin Kaas, Johan Rosengren
8PosterConsensus modelling reveals systematic differences in precision and sensitivity between platforms measuring DNA methylationTimothy J Peters(a), Terence P Speed(b), Ruth Pidsley(a), Elena Zotenko(a) and Susan J Clark(a)
10Oral: AB3ACBSConsequences of Drug Dose Modulation on Clonal DynamicsDavid Goode (a,b), Sherene Loi (b,c), Davide Ferrari (d), Anthony Papenfuss (a,e)
11Oral: AB3ACBSFunctional mutations form at CTCF/cohesin binding sites in melanoma due to uneven nucleotide excision repair across the motifRebecca C. Poulos (a), Julie A. I. Thoms (a), Yi Fang Guan (a), Ashwin Unnikrishnan (a), John E. Pimanda (a,b) and Jason W. H. Wong (a)
12Oral: AB3ACBSInvestigating the evolution of new biochemical pathways in baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaeÅsa Pérez-Bercoff (a), Tonia L. Russell (b), Philip J. L. Bell (c), Paul V. Attfield (c) and Richard J. Edwards (a)
13PosterPredicting Motif Mimicry in VirusesSobia Idrees (a), Åsa Pérez-Bercoff (a), Richard J Edwards (a)
14PosterKoala retrovirus (KoRV) insertion behaviours within the Koala genome.R. Salinas (a), Z. Chen (a,b), M. Hobbs (c), A. King (d), P. Timms (e), M. Wilkins (a) and the Koala Genome Consortium
15PosterThe Network Basis of Negative Genetic Interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeChi Nam Ignatius Pang, Apurv Goel and Marc R. Wilkins
16PosterDimensionality reduction by t-SNE uncovers the connections that shape the landscape of the transcriptomeMichael See (1), Paul F Harrison (2) David R Powell (2) David Albrecht (1) and Traude Beilharz (3)
17Oral: AB3ACBSGRIDSS: sensitive and specific genomic rearrangement detection using positional de Bruijn graph assemblyDaniel L Cameron (a,b), Anthony T Papenfuss (a,b,c)
18PosterIdentification of the dominant endogenous factors regulating inflammation and regeneration in skeletal muscle following physical traumaLian Liu (a), Jonathan Peake (a) and Tony Parker (a)
19PosterQuantification of paediatric burn blister fluid proteome using SWATH MS to assist better clinical diagnosisTuo Zang (a,b,c), Daniel A. Broszczak (a,b,c), James A. Broadbent (a,b,c), Leila Cuttle (a,b,d), Tony J. Parker (a,b)
20Oral: AB3ACBSWhole methylome analysis of grapevine (Vitis vinifera) reveals tissue specific DNA methylation variationBreen J (a,b), Rodriguez Lopez CM (b), De Bei R (b), David R (c), Searle I (d), Collins C (c)
22Oral: AB3ACBSEMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR)Pip Griffin (a), Sonika Tyagi (b), Ira Cooke (c), Philipp E. Bayer (d), David Edwards (d), Dominique Gorse (e), Saravanan Dayalan (f), Sylvain Foret (g), Jac Charlesworth (h), Steven Androulakis (i), Marc Wilkins (j), Rob Cook (e), Malcolm McConville (f), Richard Edwards (j), Madison Flannery (a), Simon Gladman (a), Andrew Lonie (a, k) & Maria Victoria Schneider (l)
23PosterDeciphering the role of Campylobacter concisus in host pathogenesis using multi-omics techniquesNandan P. Deshpande (a), Marc R. Wilkins(a,b), Hazel Mitchell (b), Nadeem O. Kaakoush (c)
24Oral: AB3ACBSCIDR: Ultrafast and accurate clustering through imputation for single-cell RNA-Seq dataPaul Lin
25PosterDifferences in non-seed pairing between miR-324-3p and miR-1913-3p account for binding and functional differencesSarah M Williams (a,b), Belinda J Goldie (c), Janette Edson (d), Michelle Watts (b,d), Charles Claudianos (b,d), Alexandre Cristino (a)
26Oral: COMBINEA transcriptional signature for TGFβ-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancerMomeneh Foroutan (a,b), Joseph Cursons (b,c,d), Soroor Hediyeh-Zadeh (b), Erik W. Thompson (a,e,f), Melissa J. Davis (b,g)
27PosterEnrichment of PRC2-binding RNA motifs for RNA-mediation regulationHaroon Naeem(a,b), Stuart Archer(a,b), David Powell(a,b) and Chen Davidovich(b,c)
28PosterEnrichment of SNPs in gene functional regions reveals genes affecting complex traitsHuiying Zhao(a), Dongsheng Fan(b), Dale Nyholt(a), Yuedong Yang (c)
29Oral: AB3ACBSTCP-seq, a novel technique for investigating mechanisms and regulation of eukaryotic translation initiationStuart K. Archer(a,b), Nikolay E. Shirokikh(a,c), Steve Androulakis(b), Traude H. Beilharz(d), & Thomas Preiss(a,e)
30PosterAssembly challenges from bacterial mobile genetic elementsAnna Syme, Sarah Baines, Dieter Bulach, Torsten Seemann
31PosterNavigating the Research Data Life CyclePhilippa Griffin (a), Rudi Appels (b,c), Dieter Bulach (a), Kevin Dudley (d), Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere (b), Andrew Pask (e), Bernard Pope (a) , Ute Roessner (e), Torsten Seemann (a), Dan Bolser (f), Jyoti Khadake (g), Suzanna Lewis (h), Sandra Orchard (f), Sonika Tyagi (i), Andrew Lonie (a,e,j) and Maria Victoria Schneider (e,j)
32PosterGenetically Perturbed Pathways and Core Driver Genes in Late-Onset Alzheimer's DiseaseSong Gao (a), Aaron Casey (a), Tim Sargeant (d), Ville-Petteri Mäkinen (a,b,c)
33PosterBiostatisticianJames Doecke
34Oral: AB3ACBSDetecting pathogenic STR expansions in next-gen sequencing dataHarriet Dashnow (a,b) and Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
35Oral: AB3ACBSHow do vulnerabilities left during the evolution of cellular networks set the stage for cancer?Trigos, A.S. (a,b), Pearson, R.B. (b,c,d), Papenfuss, A.T. (a,b,e), Goode, D.L. (a,b)
36Oral: AB3ACBSComputational methods to examine micro-RNA targeting of interacting protein networksJoseph Cursons & Melissa J Davis
37Oral: AB3ACBSAssessing the Practicality of Oxford Nanopore Sequencing in Clinical DiagnositcsAlexis Lucattini (a,b), Lavinia Gordon (a), Matt Ritchie (b)
38PosterCombining multiple tools outperforms individual methods in gene set enrichment analysesMonther Alhamdoosh(a), Milica Ng(a), Nicholas J. Wilson(a), Julie M. Sheridan(b,c), Huy Huynh(a), Michael J. Wilson(a), Matthew E. Ritchie(d,e)
39PosterrnaCleanR: A tool for quantifying and removing DNA contamination from strand-specific RNA-seqThu-Hien To & Steve Pederson
40PosterigLibQC: Quality Control Pipeline for the Construction of Antibody LibrariesMonther Alhamdoosh, Chao-Guang Chen, Milica Ng, Michael Wilson, Con Panousis
41Oral: AB3ACBSGene length bias in single cell RNA-seq dataBelinda Phipson (a), Luke Zappia (a,b) and Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
42PosterLace: constructing a transcriptome referenceAnthony Hawkins (a), Alicia Oshlack (a,b), Nadia davidson (a)
43PosterWheat Annotation PlatformRudi Appels(a,b), Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere (a), Ute Roessner (c), Madison Flannery (d), Simon Gladman (d), Sonika Tyagi (e), Andrew Lonie (d), Antony (Tony) Bacic (c) and Maria Victoria Schneider (e)
44PosterSoft selective sweeps on polygenic traits in human populationsEmily Wong (a), Matthew Robinson (b), Joseph Powell (b)
45PosterElucidating the tolerance of ammonia oxidising bacteria to Free Nitrous acid (FNA) using a combined metagenomic and quantitative MS-SWATH metaproteomic approach.A E Laloo(a), J Wei(a), D Wang(b), S Narayanasamy(c), A Buschart(c), Q Wang(a), I Vanwonterghem(d), Jason Steen(d), B Schultz(e), P Wilmes(c), A Nouwens(e), P Hughenholtz(d), Z Yuan(a), P L Bond(a).
46PosterBioinformatic investigation into effects of Wolbachia pipientis on insect-specific Flaviviruses populations in mosquitoesKirill Tsyganov, Hilaria Amuzu, Beth McGraw
47PosterIn silico analysis of immunomodulatory vaccine candidate proteins SpyCEP and EndoS in Streptococcus pyogenesLochlan Fennell (a,b)
48PosterGlobal Mapping of Bioinformatics Training in AustraliaSonika Tyagi (a), Dieter Bulach (b), Simon Gladman (b), Pedro Fernandes (c), Allegra Via (d), Jason Williams (e), Judit Kumuthini (f), Javier De Las Rivas (g,h), Andrew Lonie (b,i) & Maria Victoria Schneider (b,i)
49Oral: AB3ACBSThrough the looking glass: using Monocle to visualise methylation array dataJovana Maksimovic (a), Yuxia Zhang (c,d,e), David Martino (a,c,f,g), Richard Saffrey (a,c), Len Harrison (c,d), Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
50PosterPTMOracle: a Cytoscape app for co-visualising and co-analysing post-translational modifications in protein interaction networksAidan P. Tay, Chi Nam Ignatius Pang, Daniel L. Winter, Marc R. Wilkins
51PosterEnrich2: a statistical framework for analyzing deep mutational scanning dataAlan F. Rubin (a,b,c,d), Nathan Lucas (e), Sandra M. Bajjalieh (e), Anthony T. Papenfuss (a,b,c,f,g), Terence P. Speed (a,g), Douglas M. Fowler (d,h)
52PosterDissecting the taurine-indicine balance in fertility-related bovine protein coding regionsParthan Kasarapu (a), Laercio R. Porto-Neto (a), Marina R. S. Fortes (b), Sigrid A. Lehnert (a), Mauricio Mudadu (c), Luiz Coutinho (d), Luciana Regitano (c), Andrew George (e), Antonio Reverter (a)
53PosterIdentifying Human Papillomavirus in Head and Neck Squamous Cell CarcinomasAlexandra L. Garnham (a, b), Kendrick Koo (a), Oliver Sieber (a, b), Gordon K. Smyth (a, c)
54PosterCulture independent genome sequencing provides new insight into the microbiome associated with different types of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs)Sumeet Sandhu (a,b), Irani Udeshika Rathnayake (a,b) and Flavia Huygens (a,b)
55Oral: COMBINESimplifying simulation of single-cell RNA sequencingLuke Zappia (a,b), Belinda Phipson (a) and Alicia Oshlack (a,b)
56Oral: AB3ACBSExploiting extremes of Legionella pneumophila genomic diversity for accurate source attributionAndrew H. Buultjens (a), (b), Kyra Y. L. Chua (c), Sarah L. Baines (a), Jason Kwong (a), (b), (c), Wei Gao (b), Mark B. Schultz (a), (c), Zoe Cutcher (d), (e), Stuart Adcock (d), Susan Ballard (a), Takehiro Tomita (a), Nela Subasinghe (a), Glen Carter (b), (c), Sacha J. Pidot (b), (c), Lucinda Franklin (d), Torsten Seemann (c), (f), Anders Gonçalves Da Silva (a), (c), Benjamin P. Howden (a), (b), (c), Timothy P. Stinear (b), (c)
57Oral: COMBINEAccurate and robust normalization of Nanostring nCounter gene expression dataRamyar Molania(a,b), Terence P Speed(c,d), Alexander Dobrovic(e,f)
58Oral: AB3ACBSMighty Morphin FASTA FilesAndrew Lonsdale (a)
59Oral: AB3ACBSFRY: A Fast Approximation to ROAST Gene Set Test with Mean Aggregated Set StatisticsGöknur Giner (a,b) and Gordon K. Smyth (a,c)
60PosterFrom genes to pathways: differential expression and pathway analysis of RNA-Seq experimentsYunshun Chen (a,b) and Gordon Smyth (a,c)
61PosterEvidence-based genomic sequencing designAnna Quaglieri (a,b), Terry Speed (a), Ian Majewski (a)
62PosterIn silico functional characterization of the human lipid raft proteomeAnup D. Shah (a), David Chen (b), Melissa J. Davis (c) and Michelle M. Hill (a)
63PosterMachine-learning annotation of Human splicing branchpointsBeth Signal (a,b), Brian S Gloss(a,b), Marcel E Dinger(a,b), Tim R Mercer(a,b)
64PosterKrakenDB* : A hybrid data repository for multi-omic querying of cancer data.Wishva Herath, Ron Firestein
65Oral: AB3ACBSSuperTranscript: a compact reference for the transcriptomeNadia M Davidson (1), Anthony DK Hawkins (1) and Alicia Oshlack (1,2)
66PosterLeveraging uncertainty in ancestral sequence reconstruction using partial order graphs.Gabriel Foley
67PosterCancer progression and hypoxia - development of a pan cancer hypoxic-signatureKristy Horan, Sepideh Foroutan, Melissa Davis
68PosterRna-Seq: The effect of Single-end vs Paired-end and Stranded vs Nonstranded sequencingSusan Corley (a) Marc Wilkins (a)
69Oral: COMBINEApplying machine learning to GWAS analysis of major memory traits(a) Nesli Avgan, (a) Rodney A Lea, (a) Miles Benton, (a) Heidi G Sutherland, (b) Lauren G Spriggens, (b) David HK Shum, (a) Larisa M Haupt, (a) Lyn R Griffiths"
70PosterOutbreak of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii (CRAB) in a Brisbane Intensive Care UnitLeah W. Roberts (a,b), Patrick Harris (c,d), Brian M. Forde (a,b), Graeme Nimmo (d), Narelle George (d), Krispin Hajkowicz (e), Jeff Lipman (f), Mark A. Schembri (a,b), David Paterson (c, e), Scott A. Beatson (a,b)
71Oral: AB3ACBSProbabilistic Inference and Shared Parameter Learning for Metagenomic Sequence AnalysisDarryl Reeves (a, b, c) and Christopher E. Mason (a,b,c,d)
72PosterHigh-Resolution Termite MetagenomicsBoyd Tarlinton, Christopher Noune, Caroline Hauxwell
73Oral: AB3ACBSIdentification of allelic-specific methylation profiles across generations in the Norfolk Island genetic isolateMiles Benton (a), Rod Lea (a), Nicole White (b), Daniel Kennedy (b), Heidi Sutherland (a), Larisa Haupt (a), Kerrie Mengersen (b) and Lyn Griffiths (a)
74PosterBiomarkers of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury and RecoveryYee L Chng (a,b), Anthony W Parker (c), David A Parker (d), Tony J Parker (a,b)
75PostereQTL analysis of quantitative endophenotypes for ocular health in the Norfolk Island isolatePik Fang Kho, Rodney Lea, Miles Benton, David Eccles, Larisa Haupt, Alex Hewitt, David Mackay and Lyn Griffiths
76PosterLong k-mer clustering for scalable and accurate biological searchTimothy Chappell (a), Lawrence Buckingham (a), Shlomo Geva (a), Paul Greenfield (b), Wayne Kelly (a), Jim Hogan (a)
77PosterSMALL RNA PROFILING USING DIFFERENT SAMPLE PREPARATION PROTOCOLS AND INPUT AMOUNTSSONIKA TYAGI(a), JAFAR JABBARI (a), LAVINIA GORDON (a), MATTHEW TINNING (a), KIRBY SIEMERING (a)
78PosterEffect of Serum Concentration on the Proteome of Rat Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem CellsMorgan Carlton (a, b, c); Yinghong Zhou (c); Daniel Broszczak (a, b); Yin Xiao (c); Tony Parker (a, b)
79Oral: AB3ACBSTracking clonal evolution in cancer from multiple samplesChristoffer Flensburg, Ian Majewski
80Oral: COMBINEInsertion sequence elements are drivers of diversification in the broad host range aquatic pathogen Streptococcus iniaeAreej Alsheikh-Hussain (c), Nouri L. Ben Zakour (a), Andrew C. Barnes (b) and Scott A. Beatson (c)
81PosterComprehensive evaluation of the molecular and cellular activity of therapeutic small molecule BET inhibitorsEnid Y. N. Lam (a,b), Dean Tyler (a,b), Johanna Vappiani (c), Tatiana Cañeque (d), Omer Gilan (a,b), Aoife Ward (c), Yih-Chih Chan (a), Antje Hienzsch (d), Chun Yew Fong (a,b), Laura MacPherson (a), Sarah-Jane Dawson (a,e), Gerard Drewes (c), Rab K. Prinjha (f), Raphaël Rodriguez (d), Paola Grandi (c), Mark A. Dawson (a,e,g)
82Oral: AB3ACBSBootNet: a bootstrapping application for GLMnet modelling to identify robust classifiers in genomics dataRod Lea (a), Nicole White (b), Ray Blick (c), Macartney-Coxson (c), Daniel Kennedy (b), Lyn Griffiths (a), and Miles Benton (a)
83Oral: AB3ACBSHoloVir: Taxonomic and functional analysis of viral metagenomic communities.Patrick W Laffy(a), Elisha M Wood-Charlson(b), Dmitrij Turaev(c), Karen Weynberg(a), Emmanuelle Botte(a), Madeleine van Oppen(a,d), Nicole S Webster(a), Thomas Rattei(c)
84Oral: COMBINEScaffolding and completing genome assemblies in real-time with nanopore sequencingSon Hoang Nguyen, Minh Duc Cao, Devika Ganesamoorthy, Tania Da Silva Duarte, Alysha G. Elliott, Matthew A. Cooper, Lachlan J.M. Coin
85PosterIntegrative genomics of circulating metabolites in human populationsAaron Casey (a), Song Gao (a), Ville-Petteri Mäkinen (a, b, c)
86PosterBiomarker selection incorporating data independent acquisition mass spectrometry for the prediction of response to treatment in a non-healing wound cohortDaniel A. Broszczak (a, b), James A. Broadbent (a), Dayle L. Sampson (a), Zee Upton (a, c), Tony J. Parker (a, b)
87Oral: AB3ACBSEstimating genetic similarity with the k-mer Weighted Inner Product (kWIP)Kevin Murray (a), Cheng Soon Ong (b, c), Christfried Webers (b,c), Justin Borevitz (a), Norman Warthman (a)
88PosterUncovering Host-Pathogen Interactions in Severe Malaria Through Dual-RNA SequencingHyun Jae Lee (a), Athina Georgiadou (b), Lachlan Coin (a), Michael Levin (b), Thomas Otto (c,d), Michael Walther (e), David Conway (d), Aubrey Cunnington (b)
89PosterBayesMS: A Bayesian Model Selection approach for identifying cell- and sex-dependent DNA methylation patterns, accounting for cell lineage in whole blood.Nicole White (a), Miles Benton (b), Daniel Kennedy (a), Andrew Fox (c), Lyn Griffiths (b), Rod Lea (b), Kerrie Mengersen (a)
90PosterFlexible analytical pipelines for large virus datasetsJan P Buchmann, Mang Shi and Edward C. Holmes
91PosterA Case Study of Applying IBD and GWAS Techniques in an Isolated PopulationRhiannon Jenkins (a), Moses Laman (b), Timothy Davis (c), Dominic Kwiatkowski (d), Kirk Rockett (d), Peter Siba (b), MalariaGEN, Ivo Mueller (a), Laurens Manning (3), Melanie Bahlo (1)
92Oral: AB3ACBSDe novo characterisation of RNA structure motifs from ENCODE RIPseq dataMartin A. Smith (a), Stefan E. Seemann (b), Luis R. Arriola-Martinez (a), Xiucheng Quek (a), John S. Mattick (a)
93PosterSurvival Volume : A Python package for interactive tumour volume plotsMatthew J. Wakefield (a,b)
94Poster10 things no one tells you about your PhD, but you should knowPaula Andrea Martinez
95PosterAccelerating alignment: what can we gain from GPU-based sequence alignment tools?Sean Li (a), Ondrej Hlinka (b), Annette McGrath (a)
96PosterBioinformatic investigation of the influence of single nucleotide polymorphisms on the phenotype of venous leg ulcers and their healing trajectoryElizabeth Sydes (a, c), Daniel Broszczak (a), Dianne Maresco-Pennisi (b), Christina Parker (b), Tony Parker (a)
97PosterGenetic linkage mapping in outcrossed polyploid populations using Genotyping-By-Sequencing and assembly graphsChenxi Zhou (a), Wolfgang Gruneberg (b), Federico Diaz (b), Maria David (b), Awais Khan (b), Lachlan JM Coin (a)
98PosterR is for everyone, but you can choose what is best for youPaula Andrea Martinez (a,b)
99PosterChromosome end extension revealed by analysis of completed chromosome end sequencesHaojing Shao, Chenxi Zhou, Lachlan Coin
100PosterInferring Edge Function in Protein Interaction Networks.Daniel Esposito (a, b), Melissa Davis (a, b)
101PosterInsituNet, a Cytoscape app for network visualisation of in situ sequencing dataJohn Salamon (a), Xiaoyan Qian (c), Mats Nilsson (c), David Lynn (a,b)
102PosterCombining high throughput sequencing data to improve identification of transcription factor bindingAlex Essebier (a) and Mikael Boden (a)
103PosterGenomic characterisation of E. coli ST101; an extraintestinal pathogenic clonal lineageMelinda M. Ashcroft (a,b), Brian Forde (a,b), Minh-Duy Phan (a), Kate Peters (a), Kok-Gan Chan (c), Teik Min Chong (c), Wai-Fong Yin (c), Mark A. Schembri (a), Scott A. Beatson (a,b)
104Oral: AB3ACBSBig data from a little proteolysis: Combining multiple omics platforms to identify novel functions of a protease associated with prostate cancerRuth Fuhrman-Luck (a), Marcus Hastie (b), Thomas Stoll (b), Oded Kleifeld (c), Bosco Ho (d), Melanie Lehman (a), Anja Rockstroh (a), Thomas Kryza (a), Carson Stephens (a), Colleen Nelson (a), Jeffrey Gorman (b), Daniela Loessner (e) and Judith Clements (a)
105Oral: AB3ACBSGeometric map-reduce algorithms for alignment-free sequence comparisonLawrence Buckingham (a), Timothy Chappell (a), Shlomo Geva (a), Paul Greenfield (b), James M. Hogan (a), Wayne Kelly (a), Dimitri Perrin (a)
106PosterMetabolome-genome-wide association study of volatile compounds reveals genetic and biochemical controls of aroma in riceVenea Dara Daygon (a), Sangeeta Prakash (a), Susan McCouch (b), Melissa Fitzgerald (a)
107PosterUsing a weighted bootrap to detect the role of transposable elements on global gene regulationStephen Pederson, Lu Zeng, David Adelson
108PosterColorectal Cancer Atlas and FunRich: Discovery tools for integrated 'omics' data analysisDavid Chisanga(a),Mohashin Pathan (b), Shivakumar Keerthikumar(b), Naveen Chilamkurti(a),Suresh Mathivanan (b)
109PosterVaccine-Induced Training of Innate Immunity: Challenging Immunological DogmaLaura Sourdin (a), Damon Tumes (a), Miriam Lynn (a), Anastasia Sribnaia (a), David Williams (c), David J Lynn (a), (b).
110PosterTargeted X chromosome resequencing for discovery of unknown migraine genesRoos-Araujo, D, Sutherland, HG, Haupt, LM, Benton, MC, Lea, RA, Griffiths, LR
111Oral: AB3ACBSSmall Complementary RnA Mapper (SCRAM): a tool for studying small interfering RNA biogenesis in plantsFletcher SJ (a,b), Mitter N (b) and Carroll BJ (a)
112PosterThe Genomic Landscape of Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma and its precursor Barrett's OesophagusFelicity Newell (a), Katia Nones (a), Kalpana Patel(d), Michael Gartside(d), Lutz Krause(b), Kelly A. Loffler (d), Stephen Kazakoff (a), Ann Marie Patch (a), Luke F. Hourigan (d), Bradley J. Kendall (a,e,f), David C. Whiteman (a), John V. Pearson (a), Nicola Waddell(a)*, Andrew P. Barbour (c,d)*
113PosterIdentification of phylogenetically useful lociBokyung Choi (a), Mike Crisp (a), Lyn Cook (b), Robert Edwards (c), Alicia Toon (b), Carsten Külheim (a)
114PosterGlimma, getting greater graphics for your genesShian Su (a), Charity W. Law (a,b) and Mathew E. Ritchie (a,b,c)
115PosterScaling bioinformatics trainers: How to meet the demand for bioinformatics trainingAnnette McGrath (a), Katherine Champ (a), Konsta Duesing (a), Paul Greenfield (a), Sean McWilliam (a), Paula Moolhuizen (a), Erdahl Teber (a), Sonika Tyagi (a), Sarah Morgan (b)
116PosterThe newly identified mutations in Streptococcus Pneumoniae serotype 3 Small Colony Variants.Yiwen Zhou (a,d), Stephen Kidd(a,b,c), Jimmy Breen(d,e), Stepthen Pederson (d)