Monday 1 December
| 9:20 – 9:40 | Arrival and Registration |
| 9:40 – 9:50 | Welcome to Country
Senior Kaurna Man, Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien |
| 9:50 – 10:00 | Welcome to SAiGENCI
Prof Jose Polo EMBL Australia Scientific Head |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Welcome Address
Chief Scientist for South Australia, South Australia State Government |
| 10:40 – 11:40 | The Future of Data Needs Around the World
Interim Director, EMBL-EBI |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | AI in Medicine and the ML Landscape in Australia
Senior Manager, Development ACAMI |
| 12:40 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Ice Breaker Activity
Ricki Mailloux EMBL Australia |
| 14:15 – 16:30 | Introduction to R (optional)
Dr Nora Liu |
Tuesday 2 December
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Theory vs practice: Indigenous data sovereignty, governance and management for genomics
Chief Data Scientist of the Indigenous Genomics research group, The Kids Research Institute Australia |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Mandate for consumer engagement with focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
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 |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Collaborating Across Silos
SAiGENCI – South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute, Adelaide University; Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Introduction to R – Follow up Q&A
Dr Nora Liu SAiGENCI |
Wednesday 3 December
Today is proudly supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS)
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Computational modelling of biological networks
SAiGENCI – South Australian immunoGENomics Cancer Institute, Adelaide University; Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | The whole (cell model) is greater than the sum of it’s parts.
MACSYS & SAiGENCI |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Three Minute Thesis |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Stochastic modelling of cellular systems
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MACSYS School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 |
Thursday 4 December
Today is proudly supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS)
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Machine Learning in RNA Biology
MACSYS, Australian National University |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Text Mining for data organization and understanding
Queensland University of Technology, MACSYS |
| 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
MACSYS, Australian National University |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | How to build a genomic language model from scratch (cont.)
Ke Ding MACSYS, The Australian National University |
Friday 5 December
Workshops kindly presented by Australian BioCommons
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Machine learning in the life sciences
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.
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| 10:30 – 10:45 | Short break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Machine learning in the life sciences continued |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Three Minute Thesis |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:30 | Mastering Data Visualisation Design
Training and Communications Officer, Australian BioCommons |
| 15:30 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Group work and weekly reflections |