The Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) Queensland will be hosting a careers information afternoon for higher degree research students in microbiology or related life science disciplines. Three panellists with microbiology backgrounds from a range of areas in both academia and industry will share information about their roles, and how they got there. A social mixer to facilitate …
We are offering a two-day Introduction to RNA-seq workshop in Melbourne. In this workshop, you will be learning how to analyse RNA-seq count data, using R. This will include reading the data into R, quality control and performing differential expression analysis and gene set testing, with a focus on the limma-voom analysis workflow. You will …
Registrations and abstract submissions for the 2018 COMBINE Student Symposium are now open! The COMBINE Student Symposium is an annual, non-profit conference that aims to gather a diverse group of students and ECRs who are curious, passionate and eager to learn more about bioinformatics and computational biology. We also pride ourselves on providing a welcoming …
QFAB Bioinformatics is hosting a series of bioinformatics workshops in August-September 2018, including: Introduction to Galaxy Australia – Genome Assembly (3 hours) 22 August Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, Toowoomba, Townsville Free Genome assembly using Galaxy (1.5 days) 4-5 September University of Queensland, St Lucia campus $25 Introduction to Galaxy Australia – Variant Detection …
Genome Assembly and Variant Detection Training Workshops August-September 2018 Read More »
The FIRST joint Pawsey–COMBINE Bioinformatics Symposium is coming to Perth in September! We are looking for Bioinformatics PhD students, post-docs and early career researchers to join us! Domain experts from WA will be there to share their latest research, as well as ideas on methods, tools and best practices to everyone interested. In addition to this, the team at Pawsey Computing Centre will be running a Bioinformatics focused workshop, giving …
Perth Bioinformatics Symposium, 6-7 September 2018 Read More »
Hosted by the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), this popular annual training course encompasses an intensive 5-day hands-on program tutored by international experts utilising the latest techniques and software available for the analysis of metagenomics and NGS data. Seats are limited (40) to this workshop for early career researchers, so register early. Note pre-requisites …
Advanced bioinformatics workshop for ECRs, 26 – 30 November, 2018 Read More »
The Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre is one of the world’s leading cancer research, education and treatment centres globally and is Australia’s only public hospital solely dedicated to caring for people affected by cancer. They have over 2,500 staff, including more than 580 laboratory and clinical researchers, all focused on providing better treatments, better care and …
2018/19 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Summer Scholarship Program Read More »
Thank you to everyone who completed our National Survey of bioinformatics and computational biology students earlier in the year. We have now analysed the responses and a report with some of the key results is available on our website at https://combine.org.au/national-survey-2018/. Please head over and have a look, we are happy to hear any feedback you …
The Australasian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) is the principal body for the promotion of genomics research in Australasia. The annual AGTA conference is an essential event for researchers and industry representatives who work with genomic technologies in a variety of contexts including platform development, medical genomics, functional genomics, non-model systems, epigenomics and plant genomics. AGTA is open for suggestions …
We are looking for students from across Australia to join the combined national program committee for this year’s COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference. Student members of the committee will be involved in reviewing abstracts for both the conference and the symposium and selecting presenters for the symposium. This is a rare opportunity to review abstracts …