Monday 1 December

 

9:00 – 9:45 Registration and Check-in
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome to Country 

Senior Kaurna Man, Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome Address 

Prof Craig Simmons
Chief Scientist for South Australia, South Australia State Government

Prof Jose Polo
EMBL Australia Scientific Head, SAiGENCI

10:30 – 11:30 The Future of Data Needs Around the World

Jo McEntyre
Interim COO, EMBL-EBI

11:30 – 12:30 AI in Medicine and the ML Landscape in Australia 

Jane Leong, Director, Development at the Australian Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Innovation (ACAMI)

Renee Winzar, Senior Manager, Development ACAMI

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Ice Breaker Activity – Collaborating Across Silos
14:15 – 16:30 Introduction to R/Python (optional)

Dr Nora Liu
SAiGENCI

Tuesday 2 December

Workshops kindly presented by Australian BioCommons

9:00 – 10:30 Mastering Data Visualisation Design

Dr Giorgia Mori, Training and Communications Officer
Australian BioCommons

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Machine learning in the life sciences

Dr Benjamin Goudey, AI Technical Lead
Australian BioCommons

The basis of the workshop is to explain the use cases of AI/ML, explaining all the ways it can go wrong, how to fix it when you get stuck, and how to incorporate these tools into your research from the beginning.
12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Machine learning in the life sciences continued 
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:00 – 15:30 Introduction to iLearn Plus

Dr Fuyi Li
SAiGENCI

Wednesday 3 December

Today is proudly supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS)

9:00 – 10:30 Computational Systems Biology

Lan Nguyen
MACSYS & SAiGENCI

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Introduction to whole cell mechanistic modelling 

Anthony Hart
MACSYS & SAiGENCI

12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Pipelines, user friendly packages and analysis (Placeholder)

 

15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Session 4

Thursday 4 December

Today is proudly supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS)

9:00 – 10:30 Text Mining for data organization and understanding

Richi Nayak, MACSYS

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Recent developments in genomic language models  

Ke Ding, MACSYS, The Australian National University

12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 How to build a genomic language model from scratch

Ke Ding, MACSYS, The Australian National University

15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Session 4

Friday 5 December

9:00 – 10:30 Theory vs practice: Indigenous data sovereignty, governance and management for genomics

Dr Jimmy Breen
Chief Data Scientist of the Indigenous Genomics research group, The Kids Research Institute Australia

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Mandate for consumer engagement with focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Dr Justine Clark
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia

12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Palaeogenomics with Purpose: Innovation, Discovery, Ethics

Associate Professor Bastien Llamas
Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD)

15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:00 – 16:30 Group Work and Presentations

Learnings from the week & key takeaways