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 |
10:00 – 10:30 | Welcome address from the EMBL Australia Scientific Head
Prof James Whisstock |
10:30 – 11:30 | Next Generation Approaches to Mammal Conservation, Preservation and Restoration
Prof Andrew Pask |
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 |
14:30 – 15:30 | A Designtist’s Guide to Making Fantastic Figures
Dr Jonathan Berengut |
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 |
10:00 – 10:30 | Morning Tea |
10:30 – 11:30 | Recent Advances in Organoid Technology
Dr Thierry Jardé |
11:30 – 12:30 | Creating ‘Google Maps’ for tissues using spatial omics
Dr Raymond Yip |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 14:30 | Generating human kidney tissue using pluripotent stem cells
Prof Melissa Little |
14:30 – 15:00 | Afternoon Tea |
15:00 – 16:00 | Wellbeing and Mindfulness
Prof Craig Hassed |
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 |
12:00 – 13:00 | Faster, sharper, larger: pushing limits of biological imaging
Dr Senthil Arumugam (EMBL Australia Group Leader) & Group |
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 – 14:40 | KLEIN SCIENTIFIC DEMO
Ben Hibbs |
14:40 – 15:00 | Afternoon Tea |
15:00 – 17:00 | Securing Opportunities Outside Academia
Zoe Piper |
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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 |
10:00 – 11:00 | An unexpected journey: from parasite imaging to microbiome engineering
Dr David Riglar |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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
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10:30 – 11:30 | Functional genomics to understand chromatin biology
Prof Mark Dawson |
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 |
15:00 – 16:00 | Closing Remarks, Certificates and Departure |