VENUE: The Learning and Teaching Building, G31, unless otherwise noted

Address: 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton VIC 3168 (Building nearest the bus loop)

 

 

Monday 25th November

THEME: Welcome and Soft Skill Development

9:30 – 10:00 Registration 

Registration from 9:30 am
Tea and Coffee on arrival

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome address from the EMBL Australia Scientific Head

Prof James Whisstock
Monash University

10:30 – 11:30 Next Generation Approaches to Mammal Conservation, Preservation and Restoration

Prof Andrew Pask
University of Melbourne

11:30 – 12:00 Organising Committee Introductions and Housekeeping
12:00 – 12:30 Ice-breaker Activity
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Ten rules for the presentation and interpretation of data in publications

Prof David Vaux
University of Melbourne

14:30 – 15:30 A Designtist’s Guide to Making Fantastic Figures

Dr Jonathan Berengut
University of New South Wales

15:30 – 16:00 Short break + Poster Set up
16:00 – 17:30 Poster Session + Pizza

Please bring your posters with you. There are no printing services on site.

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Tuesday 26th November

THEME: Tissue regeneration

9:15 – 10:00 Emerging technologies in stem cell biology

Dr William Roman, EMBL Australia Group Leader
Monash University

10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea
10:30 – 11:30 Recent Advances in Organoid Technology

Dr Thierry Jardé
Monash University

11:30 – 12:30 Creating ‘Google Maps’ for tissues using spatial omics

Dr Raymond Yip
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Generating human kidney tissue using pluripotent stem cells

Prof Melissa Little
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW)

14:30 – 15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:00 – 16:00 Wellbeing and Mindfulness

Prof Craig Hassed
Monash University

16:00 – onwards Three-minute Thesis Competition

Group A – Room G31

Group B – Room 132

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Wednesday 27th November

THEME: Microscopy and Imaging Techniques

9:00 -10:00 TOUR – Monash Biomedical Imaging Centre

762-772 Blackburn Rd, Clayton VIC 3168

10:00 – 10:30 Walk back to the Learning and Teaching Building
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 – 12:00 Using advanced live-cell microscopy to unravel the secrets of the cell

Dr Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, EMBL Australia Group Leader
University of New South Wales

12:00 – 13:00 Faster, sharper, larger: pushing limits of biological imaging

Dr Senthil Arumugam (EMBL Australia Group Leader) & Group
Monash University

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:40 KLEIN SCIENTIFIC DEMO 

Ben Hibbs
Klein Scientific

14:40 – 15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:00 – 17:00 Securing Opportunities Outside Academia

Zoe Piper
CareerVitae

 

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Thursday 28th November

THEME: International networks & Aussies abroad

9:00 – 10:00 Investigating genetic causes of disease: A tale of two genomes

Assistant Professor Nicole Lake
Yale School of Medicine

10:00 – 11:00 An unexpected journey: from parasite imaging to microbiome engineering

Dr David Riglar
Imperial College of London

11:00 – 11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 – 12:15 Unravelling the Biology of Microbial Communities to Promote Human and Climate Health

Dr Simone Li
Monash University

12:15 – 13:00 INTERACTIVE Q&A SESSION
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Unlocking the Potential of Plant-Based Medicines

Dr Katherine Locock
CSIRO

15:00 – 15:30 Bus to Botanical Gardens
15:30 – 17:30 Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne

Walk and Talk

18:00 – 20:30 Course Dinner

The Precinct Hotel
60 Swan St, Cremorne VIC 3121

 

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Friday 29th November

THEME: Genomics, Bioinformatics, and AI

8:30 – 9:30 New England Biolabs – Sponsored Breakfast
9:30 – 10:30 New England Biolabs – Training Session

10:30 – 11:30 Functional genomics to understand chromatin biology

Prof Mark Dawson
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

11:30 – 12:00 Morning Tea Break
12:00 – 13:00 Prof Jose Polo
The University of Adelaide
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Transcriptome profiling: from bulk to single-cell and spatial technologies

Prof Wei Shi
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University

15:00 – 16:00 Closing Remarks, Certificates and Departure

 

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