The COMBINE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM is back in 2023 and will be held at the Hilton Brisbane in the heart of Brisbane city, this time in collaboration with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
To access discounted member tickets, you need to have a valid ABACBS or ISCB membership at the time of registration. You can manage your ABACBS membership subscription through the ABACBS website. Through the conference registration portal, you also have access to the offers of discounted ISCB membership and discounted accommodation at the Hilton. Visit the conference website here for more details.
Date: 4th December 2023
Location: Hilton, Brisbane
Abstract submissions are now closed.
Click on the button below to view the COMBINE Symposium program.
Keynote Speaker:
Prof Jean Yang:
o Affiliation – University of Sydney
o Research area – Statistical methods
Careers Panel Speakers:
Dr Anne Klein:
o Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Translational Bioinformatics Group, CSIRO
o Genomic Simulations
o Industry, Early Career Research
Dr Stevie Pederson
o Post-doctoral Researcher, Black Ochre Data Labs, Indigenous Genomics, Telethon Kids Institute
o Transcriptomics, genomics
o Academia, Early Career Research
Olga Kondrashova
o NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow & Team Lead, QIMR Berghofer
o Machine Learning, genomics
James McCafferty
o Chief Information Officer, Wellcome Sanger Institute
2023 COMBINE Symposium Committee
The organising committee is composed of volunteer PhD students from across the country, and across a variety of research disciplines.
Conference chairs:
– Oliver Hughes – University of Queensland
– Sam Davis – University of Queensland
Committee members:
Alecia Gee – University of Adelaide
Aliah Aziz – Bond University
Bhavika Kumar – Australian National University
Dalia Mizikovsky – University of Queensland
Eileen Ho – University of Queensland
George Bouras- University of Adelaide
Hisatake Ishida – University of Queensland
Jenna Supper – University of Queensland
Lachlan Baer – University of Adelaide
Laura Inglis – Flinders University
Namuhan – University of Queensland
Sebastian Porras – University of Queensland
Sehaj Dhariwal – University of Adelaide
Shaine Bao – University of Queensland
Sophie Shen – University of Queensland
Sumedha Negi – University of Queensland
Vera Sun – University of Queensland
Zoe Wu – University of Queensland
For any enquiries please email symposium@combine.org.au.
See our past symposiums here.