2023 EMBL Australia PhD Course Program | EMBL Australia

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Monday 20 November
Tuesday 21 November
Wednesday 22 November
Thursday 23 November
Friday 24 November

Monday 20th November

9:30 – 11am	Welcome and Registration Prof James Whisstock EMBL Australia Prof Kiaran Kirk The Australian National University Prof Russell Gruen The Australian National University
11 – 12pm	Keynote
12 – 1pm	Lunch
1 – 1:30pm	Building and Lab Safety
1:30 – 2pm	Housekeeping and other notes
2 – 3pm	Bioengineering to address global challenges A/Prof Caitlin Byrt The Australian National University Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
3 – 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30 – 5pm	Information theory, thermodynamics and more: a physics primer for Biologists Dr Richard Morris School of Physics and EMBL Australia node in Single Molecule Science, UNSW Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202

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Tuesday 21st November

9 – 10am	Scientist and Communicator: science isn’t done until it is communicated. Dr Jennifer Payne CSIRO Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
10 – 10:30am	Morning Tea
10:30 – 12pm	A Designtist’s Guide to Making Fantastic Figures Dr John Berengut University of New South Wales Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
12 – 1pm	Lunch
1 – 2:30pm	Visualising Data: The good, the bad and the error bar Prof Julie Simpson University of Melbourne Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
2:30 – 3pm	Afternoon Tea
3 – 5pm	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Science and Society Dr Cheng-Soon Ong Prof Lexing Xie The Australian National University

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Wednesday 22nd November

9 – 1 pm	First Group, Three Minute Thesis Competition Physics Building, Conference Level 4 Building 160
1 – 2 pm	LunchRoom 3.202
2 – 3 pm	Single Cell Transcriptomics Dr Daniela Zalcenstein WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Seminar Rooms 1 and 2
3 – 3:30 pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30 pm – onwards	Student Scavenger Hunt

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Thursday 23rd November

9 – 1pm	Second Group, Three Minute Thesis Competition
1 – 2pm	Lunch
2 – 3pm	Characterising the (epi)transcriptome at single-molecule resolution with long-read sequencing Prof Eduardo Eyras John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
3 – 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30 – 4:30pm	Monash BDI Organoid Platform (Preclinical Models) Dr Thierry Jarde
4:30 – 5:30pm	Engineered Living Materials: From artificial membrane binding proteins to 3D bioprinted tissue constructs Prof Adam Perriman Australian National University JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2

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Friday 24th November

9 – 10am	Flow Cytometry Introduction Lecture Dr Michelle Boyle
10 – 10:30am	EAPS Committee Overview Helen King, Ricki Mailloux
10:30 – 11:30am	High Dimensional Cytometry led Immunophenotyping to Dissect underlying Immune Patterns across Human Disease Dr Helen McGuire The University of Sydney JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
11:30 – 12pm	Morning Tea
12 – 1pm	ANU Director’s Seminar Dr Michelle Boyle
1 – 2pm	Lunch
2 – 3pm	Indigenous Genomics Azure Hermes
3 – 4pm	Impact of Chat GPT in Academia Dr Ehsan Nabavi

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