Program
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Maps of CPC Lecture Theatre, Seminar Rooms and Wallace Theatre
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*Please click on the session name in the table of content below to jump directly to that session.
- Day 1, Session 1, 15:15*
- Day 2*
- Session 2, Plenary Lectures, 9:00-10:50*
- Morning Tea, 10:50-11:20
- Session 3, Parallel Sessions, 11:20-12:20*
- Lunch, AGM & Poster Session A, 12:20 - 14:15
- Session 4, Parallel Sessions and Fast Forward Talks, 14:15-15:45*
- Session 5, Plenary Lectures, 16:15-17:55*
- GIW/ABACBS Conference Dinner
- Day 3*
- Session 6, Plenary Lectures, 9:00-10:50*
- Morning Tea, 10:50-11:20
- Session 7, Parallel Sessions, 11:20-12:20*
- Lunch & Poster Session B, 12:20-13:30
- Session 8, Parallel Sessions, 13:30-14:45*
- Afternoon Tea, 14:45-15:15
- Session 9, Plenary Lectures, Closing session and ABACBS conference awards 15:15-17:00*
- Professional Bioinformatician Social drinks 17:00 onwards*
The start time and title for each talk selected for presentations during the parallel sessions will be available sometime in the week starting 25th November.
Day 1 - Monday 9th December 2019
Session 1- Joint Session of COMBINE, AYRCOB, ABACBS and GIW and Social Functions
Duration: 15:15 - 17:10
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC)Click here for map
15:15 | Welcome to Country | |
15:30 | Housekeeping and welcome to conference | |
15:40 | Rafael Irizarry - Statistical Approaches for Single Cell Technologies. Joint conference plenary. | |
16:30 | COMBINE Awards (x6 - 10mins), ABACBS Awards (15 min) + ABACBS Award Q&A (2 x 5 mins) | |
Social Functions | ||
17:10 | Welcome reception drinks | |
18:00 | Postdoc drinks bioinformaticians drinks at the Alfred Hotel's beer garden 7 mins. walk from the CPC. Bar tab possible (TBC)?
RSVP for PosDoc drinks here: http://abacbs19-postdoc-catchup.rsvpify.com | |
19:00 | Speakers Dinner |
Day 2 - Tuesday 10th December 2019
Session 2 - Plenary Lectures
Duration: 09:00 - 10:50
Location: Wallace Theatre Click here for map
Chair: Joshua Ho
9:00 | John Marioni - Understanding cell fate decisions using single cell genomics International Keynote. | |
 9:40 | Pei Wang - iProFun: An integrative analysis tool to screen for Proteogenomic Functional traits. International Keynote. | |
10:20 | Eduardo Eyras - A brave new RNA world. National Keynote. |
Morning Tea
Duration: 10:50 - 11:20
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Session 3 - Parallel Sessions
Duration: 11:20 - 12:20
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Four parallel sessions with 4 x 15 minutes talks.
3a - Single Cell Analytics 1, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Joshua Ho | ||
3b - Data analytics 1, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Pengyi Yang | ||
3c - Proteomics/Metabolomics, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Shoba Ranganathan | ||
3d - NGS data analysis, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Eleni Giannoulatou | ||
Lunch / AGM & Poster Session A
Posters have a maximum size of A0 in the portrait orientation.
Duration: 12:20 - 14:15
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Session 4 - Parallel Sessions & Fast Forward Presentations
Duration: 14:15 - 15:45
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Four parallel sessions, including 4 x 15 minutes talk and 30 mins. fast forward prseentations.
4a - Transcriptomics, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Pengyi Yang | ||
4b - Structural Variation, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Tony Papenfuss | ||
4c - Systems Biology, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Igy Pang | ||
4d - Genomics 1, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Eleni Giannoulatou | ||
Fast Forward Presentations, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Ellis Patrick | ||
15:15 | Fast Forward Presentations will take place at the CPC lecture theatre and streamed to the poster rooms. |
Afternoon Tea
Duration: 15:45 - 16:15
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Session 5 - Plenary Lectures
Duration: 16:15 - 17:55
Location: Wallace Theatre (CPC) Click here for map
Chair: Mark Cowley
16:15 | David Lynn - Rewiring of metabolic, transcriptional, and protein-protein interaction networks in colorectal cancer cells expressing oncogenic KRAS. National Keynote. | |
16:45 | Denis Bauer - Cloud computing and artificial intelligence transforms bioinformatics research. National Keynote. | |
17:15 | Mona Singh - Integrative methods for deciphering cancer networks. International Keynote. |
GIW/ABACBS Conference Dinner
Duration: 18:15 - 22:30
Location: The Grandstand Function Centre (opposite the CPC). See map by clicking here.
Day 3 - Wednesday 11th December 2019
Session 6 - Plenary Lectures
Duration: 9:00 - 10:50
Location: Wallace Theatre Click here for map
Chair: Tony Papenfuss
 9:00 | Elana Fertig - Transfer Learning for Cross-species, Cross-tissue, and Spatial Single Cell Analysis. International Keynote. | |
 9:40 | Jason Wong - Determinants of CTCF/cohesin binding site mutagenesis in cancer genomes. International Keynote. | |
10:20 | Clare Wade - The genomics of cognition in dogs. National Keynote. |
Morning Tea
Duration: 10:50 - 11:20
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Session 7 - Parallel Sessions
Duration: 11:20 - 12:20
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Four parallel sessions with 4 x 15 minutes talks.
7a - Translational Genomics, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Jean Yang | ||
7b - Deep Learning, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Shoba Ranganathan | ||
7c - Epigenetics, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Sebastian Kurscheid | ||
7d - RNA biology, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Katarina Stuart | ||
Lunch and Poster Session B
Posters have a maximum size of A0 in the portrait orientation.
Duration: 12:20 - 13:30
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Session 8 - Parallel Sessions
Duration: 13:30 - 14:45
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
8a - Single Cell Analytics 2, CPC Lecture Theatre, Chair: Pengyi Yang | ||
8b - Metagenomics/Microbial genomics, CPC Seminar Room 1.1, Chair: Igy Pang | ||
8c - Data analytics 2, CPC Seminar Room 1.2, Chair: Jinyan Li | ||
8d - Genomics 2, CPC Dry Lab 1.2/1.3, Chair: Mark Cowley | ||
Afternoon Tea
Duration: 14:45 - 15:15
Location: Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) Click here for map
Session 9, Closing Session and ABACBS conference awards
Duration: 15:15 - 17:00
Location: Wallace Theatre Click here for map
Chair: Aaron Darling
15:15 | Best COMBINE talk. | |
15:30 | Elaine Holmes - Bioinformatic strategies for enhanced metabolic phenotypic and biomarker recovery Internatinoal Keynote. | |
16:10 | Jürgen Cox - Computational proteomics enhancements in MaxQuant by (deep) machine learning and ion mobility awareness. International Keynote. | |
16:50 | Closing session, and ABACBS conference awards. | |
17:00 | Social Drinks for Professional Bioinformaticians @ Alfred Hotel's beer garden 7 mins. walk from CPC. Please see map here: https://goo.gl/maps/rsZn1bjY6gqcaaZG7 |
Day 4 - Workshops Thursday 12th December 2019
Location: University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Building 10 (CB10)
Classrooms: CB10.03.480, CB10.03.470, CB10.03.450
Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/SXPhYTBZzC4AHFk87
Catering: Only morning and afternoon teas will be included as part of the workshop. Participants are encourage to purchase their own lunch at a variety of restaurants nearby the UTS precinct. Please see below for nearby lunch suggestions.
Morning 9 am - 12 noon (except Clinical Bioinformatics Symposium 9 am - 1 pm)
Snakemake Workshop
Classroom: CB10.03.480
Convener: Dr. Nathan Watson-Haigh
Clinical Bioinformatics Symposium
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Classroom: CB10.03.470
Organisers:
A/Prof Mark Cowley - Children’s Cancer Institute, Sydney, Australia
Dr Mark Pinese - Children’s Cancer Institute, Sydney, Australia
Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis On The Cloud
Classrooms: CB10.03.450
Instructors:
- Ms. Xiunan Fang - The University of Hong Kong
- Mr. Gordon Qian - The University of Hong Kong
Machine Learning Applications Using Amazon Cloud Workshop has been Cancelled and replaced by the Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Analysis on the Cloud workshop above
Lunch 12 to 1 pm
Participants are encourage to purchase their own lunch at a variety of restaurants nearby the UTS precinct. Please see below for nearby lunch suggestions.
Afternoon 2 pm - 5 pm
GWAS, Machine Learning and the Cloud
Classrooms: CB10.03.470
Conveners: Dr. Natalie Twine and Dr. Arash Bayat
Proteomics Data Analysis Workshop
Classrooms: CB10.03.480
Convener: Prof. Jürgen Cox
Nearby Lunch suggestions
Penny Lane cafe is closeby
The Spicy Alley offers a lots of asian cuisine in a street hawker style setting.
MacDonald's and KFC