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The COMBINE Symposium is a student-run, 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. All attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to everyone throughout the conference.The ABACBS code of conduct will apply to the symposium.

Hosted by the university of Tasmania, this year the COMBINE Symposium 2021 will be held as a hybrid virtual/in-person event on the 22nd of November, in conjunction with the ABACBS conference 2021 on 23-24 November. 

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Program

The times indicated in the following program are in Sydney, Australia (AEDT) time zone.

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Keynote Speaker

Prof. ALICIA OSHLACK

(Co)Head of the Computational Biology Program, group leader at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Professor Alicia Oshlack has been at the forefront of bioinformatics research for more than 15 years. She is best known for her large body of work on transcriptional analysis and medical genomics. In addition, Oshlack is internationally recognised for her development of bioinformatics methods for a range of applications including single cell RNA-seq, methylation and genomic analysis. Oshlack is involved in many cutting edge collaborative projects utilising high throughput sequencing to investigate disease and development. She has published more than 100 papers and has developed more than a dozen software packages. Oshlack has been recognised by several awards including the Australian Academy of Science, Gani Medal for Human Genetics (2011) and the Georgina Sweet Award for Women in Quantitative Biomedical research (2016).

Careers Panel

SARAH BEECROFT

Bioinformatics Applications Specialist, Pawsey supercomputing centre, WA

THOM QUINN

Data Scientist, VIC

SONIKA TYAGI

Senior Lecturer, Monash University, VIC

ETSUKO UNO

Biomedical Animator, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC

Key Dates

Presenter instructions

10min Presentation: the oral presentation slot will be 15 minutes (~10 minutes + 5 minutes questions). Please prepare your slides in 16:9 widescreen dimensions in PowerPoint or PDF format.

3 min Flash Talk: each talk will be strictly limited to three minutes. Please prepare your slides in 16:9 widescreen dimensions in PowerPoint or PDF format.

Symposium Principal Sponsor

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO – Australia’s national science agency, and WA public universities, is accelerating scientific breakthroughs through world-class expertise and infrastructure in supercomputing, cloud services, data-intensive analysis, storage and visualisation. From speeding the development of new crops to feed us into the future to developing improved diagnostic tests for coronaviruses, Pawsey’s supercomputers are already being used to help accelerate some of Australia and the world’s most important research projects across medical research, artificial intelligence, chemistry, physics, engineering, and more. The Centre is supported by the Australian and Western Australia governments and its partner organisations.

Session Sponsor

Intersect Australia 

Intersect Australia is a leading provider of eResearch training, services, and solutions. As a not-for-profit, member-based organisation, Intersect offers training and research support to meet the specific needs of researchers and enhance research productivity. Through a highly experienced team embedded within its member institutions and supported by technical and operational experts, it also offers research-oriented cloud storage, compute, research data management, and research software engineering services.

General Sponsors

2021 COMBINE Symposium Committee

Chairs: Aditya Sethi and Sachintha Wijegunasekara

Committee Members: Akari Komori, Alice Whitehead, Giulia Iacono, Himal Shrestha, Ji-Ru Han, Kshitiz Shrestha, Sam Davis, Thomas Litster, Tyrone Chen, Yunwei Zhang, Patricia Sullivan, Pia Campagna

For any enquiries please email symposium@combine.org.au.