Symposiums

Events with presentations from research experts and workshops to gain further skills in the areas of Bioinformatics.

Past symposiums

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RMIT single-cell RNA-Seq Workshop & Symposium - 10, 11, 12 November 2021

Online/Virtual event

Single-cell RNA Sequencing (scRNA-Seq) is a relatively new and powerful technique that offers unparalleled insight into gene expression at the level of individual cells.

Whether you are planning a scRNA-Seq experiment, reanalysing one of the many existing datasets available online or are just interested in learning a new technique, this symposium has something for you. View Eventbrite listing to sign up for the 2-day workshop (10-11th Nov 2021) or 1-day symposium (12 Nov 2021).

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Symposium program

12th Nov 2021
Research Presentations 9:30am 12pm
9:35 - 10:20am	Dr. Elizabeth Mason Hogan Lab, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre New regulators of lymphatic development from single cell profiling
10:20 - 10:45am	Dr. Alex Combes Combes Lab, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Using single cell analysis to investigate kidney development and guide cellular engineering
10:55 - 11:40am	Dr. Jonathan Noonan Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology Lab, Baker IDI A Dummies Guide to scRNA seq
11:40 - 12:05pm	Dr. Adele Barugahare Monash Bioinformatics Platform, Monash University A quickstart overview to single cell analysis ecosystems
Panel Discussion 12:15 1pm
12:15 1pm	Dr. Luciano Martelotto Scientific Director, Single Cell Core Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, USA
	Dr. Davis McCarthy Head, Bioinformatics & Cellular Genomics Laboratory, St Vincents Institute
	Dr. Nick Wong Senior Research Fellow, Monash Bioinformatics Platform
	Dr. Adele Barugahare Bioinformatician, Monash Bioinformatics Platform
	Dr. Jonathan Noonan Research Officer, Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology Lab, Baker IDI

RMIT Bioinformatics Symposium - 21, 22, 23 October 2019

City Campus - 80.03.015

A follow-up 3 day event with presentations from research experts and workshops to gain further skills in the areas of Bioinformatics.

Broad themes:

Systems Biology
Translational ‘Omics’
Data visualisation and reproducible research

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Symposium program

	Monday 21st October	Tuesday 22nd October	Wednesday 23rd October
from 9:00am	Registration	Registration	Registration
9:30 - 10:30am	Melissa Davis (WEHI) Knowledge driven computational methods: Molecular classification, deconvolution and detection of natural killer cell infiltration in solid tumours	Jessica Mar (University of Queensland) Modelling variability in transcriptomic data – moving beyond the average	Kim-Ahn Le Cao (Melbourne University) Multivariate data integration with mixOmics
10:30 - 11am	Morning tea break	Morning tea break	Morning tea break
11 - 12pm	Nadia Davidson (MCRI) ALL we can discover with RNA-Seq in cancer: Methods for detecting alterations and application to paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)	Inge Holtman (University of California San Diego) Identification of human gene regulatory regions in brain cell types provides functional insight in genetic variation of complex diseases of the CNS	Brendan Ansell (WEHI) Untangling the causes of a rare degenerative retinal disease: insights from genomics, metabolomics & transcriptomics
11 - 12pm	Saritha Kodikara (RMIT) Use of genomic data in reconstructing complex disease transmission networks		Closing remarks and discussion
12 - 1pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1 - 2:30pm	Workshop: Intro to Unix/Linux	Workshop: Introduction to scRNAseq	Workshop: Introduction to Data Visualization & ggplot2
2:30 - 3pm	Afternoon tea break	Afternoon tea break	Afternoon tea break
3 - 4:30pm	Workshop: Intro to Unix/Linux (continued)	Workshop: Introduction to scRNAseq (continued)	Workshop: Introduction to Data Visualization & ggplot2 (continued)

RMIT Bioinformatics Symposium - 9, 10, 11 September 2019

Bundoora West Campus

An exciting 3 day event was held with fantastic talks and workshops as listed below.

Find detail of the talks and workshop on our internal google site (requires RMIT login)

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Symposium program

	Monday 9th September	Tuesday 10th September	Wednesday 11th September
from 9:30am	Registration	Registration	Registration
10 - 11am	Nick Wong (Monash University) Title: Hello world: from the Monash Bioinformatics Platform	Ryan Wick & Kelly Wyres (Monash University) Title: Long-read nanopore sequencing for bacterial genomics: bioinformatics and applications	Davis McCarthy (St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research) Title: Borrowing strength in numbers: modelling bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data
11 - 11:30am	Morning tea break	Morning tea break	Morning tea break
11:30 am - 12pm	Celine Pattaroni (Monash University) Title: Bioinformatics for the microbiome: a window of opportunity	Beth Jelfs (RMIT) Title: Machine Learning for High Throughput Cell Imaging	Vural Aksakalli (RMIT) Title: Feature selection for Genomic Microarray Data
12 - 12:30pm	Hao Van (RMIT) Title: The power of Next Generation Sequencing in bacterial research	TCM Network Presentations: Andrew Hung (RMIT) Title: Life at the Nanoscale: Molecular Simulations of Proteins in Health & Food Science 2nd speaker TBC	Kirill Tsyganov (Monash University) Title: Practical consideration for an amplicon data analysis
12:30 - 1pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1 - 2:30pm	Workshop Day 1: Intro to R and R Studio	Workshop Day 2: Intro to Python and Juypter Notebooks	Workshop Day 3: Scaling bioinformatics to HPC and Cloud-based systems - an introduction
2:30 - 3pm	Afternoon tea break	Afternoon tea break	Afternoon tea break
3 - 4:30pm	Workshop Day 1: Intro to R and R Studio (continued)	Workshop Day 2: Intro to Python and Juypter Notebooks (continued)	Workshop Day 3: Scaling bioinformatics to HPC and Cloud-based systems - a demonstration