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 Prof Jose Polo |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | The Future of Data Needs Around the World
Jo McEntyre |
| 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 |
Tuesday 2 December
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Theory vs practice: Indigenous data sovereignty, governance and management for genomics
Dr Jimmy Breen |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | TBC |
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 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Introduction to whole cell mechanistic modelling
Anthony Hart |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Three Minute Thesis |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Pipelines, user friendly packages and analysis (Placeholder)
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| 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
Workshops kindly presented by Australian BioCommons
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Machine learning in the life sciences
Dr Benjamin Goudey, AI Technical Lead 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
Dr Giorgia Mori, Training and Communications Officer |
| 15:30 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Group work and weekly reflections |