Join us at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Auditorium to discuss industrial placements and diverse career paths within the bioinformatics industry. This is an opportunity to gain insights into bioinformatics career pathways beyond academia. When: Friday, June 7, 2024 at 1pm Where: SAHMRI Auditorium, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia Cost: FREE …
Join the 2024 Committee Are you a current student studying computational biology or bioinformatics? Are you interested in being part of a community that supports students by planning events, encouraging social interactions and promoting technical skills — then come and join the COMBINE committee! We are a purely online committee and would love to have …
Are you a current student studying computational biology or bioinformatics? Are you interested in being part of a community that supports students by planning events, encouraging social interactions and promoting technical skills — then come and join the COMBINE committee! We are a purely online committee and would love to have committee members from all …
COMBINE is seeking expressions of interest to join the 2023 COMBINE Symposium Organising Committee! The COMBINE symposium is our premier annual event, held in conjunction with the ABACBS conference. It provides an opportunity for bioinformatics and computational biology students from across Australia to present their research. This year’s symposium will be held in late November / early December …
On 14th and 16th September 2021, COMBINE organised a bioinformatics workshop with virtual machines provided through Australian BioCommons, with 25 registrants across 6 states in Australia. This workshop introduced basic activities carried out by bioinformaticians including basic shell functions, version control with git, formatting documents with LaTeX and working with real biological data. Participants were …
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1. What is your current role? PostDoc researcher at Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University and visiting scientist at Garvan Institute, Sydney. I work on somatic structural variant detection and annotation in cancer genomes. 2. How did you end up in bioinformatics? My background actually is a bit different. I worked as an electrical engineer for …
1. What is your current role? Finishing up a research Masters at UTS! My project looked at benchmarking recombination detection methods for viral sequences. 2. How did you end up in bioinformatics? “Bioinformatics” was mentioned in a final year genomics lecture as this awesome thing that used programming and computing to make sense of biological …
1. What is your current role? I’m a post-doc researcher at Deakin University. I develop machine learning models for genomic data, especially microbiome compositions. 2. How did you end up in bioinformatics? Phew, that’s a journey! Before getting into research, I actually went to medical school. I loved the coursework, but I didn’t care much …
1. What is your current role? 2nd year bioinformatics PhD student with Monash University, supervised by Sonika Tyagi.I work on developing and applying tools for multi-omics data integration. 2. How did you end up in bioinformatics? I started as a biologist but attended an introduction to bioinformatics lecture as an undergraduate. I saw a big fasta …
On 4th and 6th May 2021, COMBINE organised a python workshop, with 38 registrants across 6 states in Australia. This workshop covered basic concepts in python including pandas, data visualisation, and plotting with plotnine. Participants were presented with challenges after each section, which made the learning fun and interactive.