Symposium 2023

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.