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 – 10am	Registration Innovations Theatre, Anthony Low Building #124
10:15 – 11am	Welcome Address Professor James Whisstock Scientific Head, EMBL Australia Professor Kiaran Kirk Dean, ANU College of Science Professor Graham Mann Director, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU Professor Russell Gruen Dean of the College of Health and Medicine, ANU Innovations Theatre, Anthony Low Building #124
11 – 12pm	Welcome Keynote Professor Esperanza Martinez The Australian National University Innovations Theatre, Anthony Low Building #124
12 – 1pm	Lunch
1 – 1:30pm	Building and Lab Safety John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
1:30 – 2pm	Housekeeping Notes JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
2 – 3pm	Bioengineering to address global challenges A/Prof Caitlin Byrt The Australian National University JCSMR, 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 Download Files JCSMR, 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 Download resources JCSMR, 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 JCSMR, 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 JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202
2:30 – 3pm	Afternoon Tea
3 – 4:30pm	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Science and Society Dr Cheng-Soon Ong Director Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Future Science Platform Data61, CSIRO JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Room 3.202

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Wednesday 22nd November

9 – 1 pm	Three Minute Thesis Competition Presenting: PINK, PURPLE, NAVY Innovations Theatre, Anthony Low Building #124
1 – 2 pm	Lunch JCSMR, Room 3.202
2 – 2:45 pm	Single Cell Transcriptomics Dr Daniela Zalcenstein Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 and 2
2:45 – 3:30 pm	Characterising the (epi)transcriptome at single-molecule resolution with long-read sequencing Prof Eduardo Eyras John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University and EMBL Australia Group Leader JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
4 pm – onwards	Student Scavenger Hunt 20-22 London Circuit, Reserve Bank of Australia (20 min walk from JCSRM)

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Thursday 23rd November

9 – 1pm	Three Minute Thesis Competition Presenting: BLUE, RED, GREEN Innovations Theatre, Anthony Low Building #124
1 – 2pm	Lunch JCSMR, Room 3.202
2 – 3pm	Engineered Living Materials: From artificial membrane binding proteins to 3D bioprinted tissue constructs Prof Adam Perriman Australian National University JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2
3 – 3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30 – 4:30pm	Small Size, Big Potential: Recent Advances in Organoid Technology Dr Thierry Jarde Monash University JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2

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Friday 24th November

9 – 9:45am	Flow Cytometry Introduction Lecture A/Prof Michelle Boyle Burnet Institute and EMBL Australia Group Leader JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Room 3.202
9:45 – 10:15am	Cytek Sponsor Lecture
10:15 – 11:15am	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, Room 3.202
11:15 – 11:35am	EAPS Committee Overview Ricki Mailloux EMBL Australia JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Room 3.202
11:35 – 12pm	Morning Tea
12 – 1pm	ANU Director’s Seminar Dr Michelle Boyle Burnet Institute and EMBL Australia Group Leader JCSMR, Finkel Lecture Theatre
1 – 2pm	Lunch
2 – 3pm	Indigenous Genomics – The Power Community Consultation A/Prof Azure Hermes Deputy Director ANU National Centre for Indigenous Genomics JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Room 3.202
3 – 4:30pm	Large Language Models and Science Dr Ehsan Nabavi Centre for the Public Awareness of Science \| Responsible Innovation Lab Chat GPT: applications in medical, health and science research Dr Nathan Reynolds The Australian National University JCSMR, Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Room 3.202

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