Monday 8 December

Workshops kindly presented by the South Australian Genomics Centre.

This workshop will serve as an introduction to the why and how of spatial transcriptomics, featuring popular platforms such as Visium, Xenium, and Stereo-seq. During this hands-on tour we will be exploring and analysing real spatial datasets.

9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 2
12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:00 – 15:30 Session 4

Tuesday 9 December

Today is proudly supported by the Solutions for Manufacturing Advanced Regenerative Therapies (SMART) Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)

9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 2
12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 3
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:00 – 15:30 Session 4

Wednesday 10 December

9:00 – 10:30 Communicating Research with Impact: From the Lab to the Public
Jodie Haigh,
ARC, Science Communicators
10:30 – 11:30 Designtist’s Guide for Scientists

Dr Jonathan Berengut, UNSW

11:30 – 13:30 Working Lunch

Time will be allocated during lunch to redesign a new poster (using supplies provided) or to rework your poster’s elevator pitch, incorporating the morning sessions’ learnings.

13:30 – 14:30 Three Minute Thesis
14:30 – 14:50 Break
14:50 – 16:30 Poster Session

Poster session will be open to members of the local scientific community. Poster will be judged and scored, with the option for students to present their redesigned posters in addition to their existing poster.

 

Thursday 11 December

Workshops kindly presented by Microscopy Australia

9:00 – 9:45 Introduction to Microscopy Australia (Accessing Infrastructure, imaging technique finder, etc)

Dr Jane Sibbons

9:45 – 10:30 Structural Insights at the Intersection of Cryo-EM and AlphaFold 

Dr Fiona Whelan

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Structural Insights at the Intersection of Cryo-EM and AlphaFold (continued)

Dr Fiona Whelan

12:00 – 12:30 Three Minute Thesis
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Volume reconstruction from optical data and expansion microscopy as a disruptive volume imaging method

Prof Izzy Jayasinghe, UNSW

15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Image Analysis with AI

Dr Ning, SAiGENCI

 

Friday 12 December

9:00 – 10:30 Impact CV Workshop

Kathy

10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Career Panel

  • Denis Bauer, CSIRO
  • Richard Jacoby, EMBL
  • Luke Isbel, SAiGENCI
  • Monica Espinosa Gomez, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Chief Scientist Australia
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Final group presentations
15:00 – 15:10 Course finishes