Monday 8 December
Workshops kindly presented by the South Australian Genomics Centre.
This workshop will serve as an introduction to the why and how of spatial transcriptomics, featuring popular platforms such as Visium, Xenium, and Stereo-seq. During this hands-on tour we will be exploring and analysing real spatial datasets.
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Intro to Spatial Transcriptomics – to include 10X, STOmics
Dr John Salamon |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Getting set up, using SpaceRanger
Sarah Shah |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Visium downstream analysis
Sarah Shah |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Intro to the Pawsey HPC
Sarah Beecroft |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Fire drill |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Xenium part 1
Cathal King |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Xenium part 2
Cathal King |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Further analysis and conclusion
John Salamon |
Tuesday 9 December
Today is proudly supported by the Solutions for Manufacturing Advanced Regenerative Therapies (SMART) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
| 9:00 – 10:15 |
What is the SMART CRC? Therapies: innovations to patients |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Group work: Bringing a cell therapy to market – project plan development |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Three Minute Thesis |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 |
IP considerations and protections Presentation of results |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Wrap up |
Wednesday 10 December
This session will take place at SAHMRI, located at 870 North Terrace
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Communicating Research with Impact: From the Lab to the Public
ARC, Science Communicators |
| 10:15 – 11:30 | Designtist’s Guide for Scientists
University of New South Wales |
| 11:30 – 13:30 | Working Lunch
Time will be allocated during lunch to redesign a new poster (using supplies provided) or to rework your poster’s elevator pitch, incorporating the morning sessions’ learnings. |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Three Minute Thesis – Take Two |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Poster Session
Poster session will be open to members of the local scientific community. Poster will be judged and scored, with the option for students to present their redesigned posters in addition to their existing poster. |
Thursday 11 December
Workshops kindly presented by Microscopy Australia
| 9:00 – 9:45 | Introduction to Microscopy Australia (Accessing Infrastructure, imaging technique finder, etc)
Deputy Director, Adelaide Microscopy |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Introduction to Volume Electron Microscopy & AI-Assisted Image Analysis
The University of Sydney |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Transmission electron microscopy at cryogenic temperatures |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Combining advanced microscopy with AI-driven analysis
University of Adelaide |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Identifying cellular neighbourhoods and density patterns from image-based spatial transcriptomics data with Bioconductor packages.
SAiGENCI |
Friday 12 December
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Research impact planning, tracking and communication: using an Impact CV
Griffith University |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Career Panel
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Final group reflections & certificates |
| 15:00 – 15:10 | Course finishes |