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 

Prof Craig Simmons

Chief Scientist for South Australia, South Australia State Government

10:40 – 11:40 The Future of Data Needs Around the World

Jo McEntyre

Interim Director, EMBL-EBI

11:40 – 12:40 AI in Medicine and the ML Landscape in Australia 

Renee Winzar

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
SAiGENCI

Tuesday 2 December

9:00 – 10:15 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

10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 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
15:30 – 16:00 Collaborating Across Silos

Prof Lan Nguyen

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

Professor Lan Nguyen

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.

Anthony Hart

MACSYS & SAiGENCI

12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Stochastic modelling of cellular systems

Dr Lucy Ham

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

Prof Eduardo Eyras

MACSYS, Australian National University

10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Text Mining for data organization and understanding

Professor Richi Nayak

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

Dr Ke Ding

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

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.
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

Dr Giorgia Mori

Training and Communications Officer, Australian BioCommons

15:30 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Group work and weekly reflections