The times indicated in the following program are in Sydney, Australia (AEDT) time zone
Monday November 23rd
| AEDT 10:45am to 11:00am | Welcome | |||
| Chair: A.J. Sethi | Session 1: Transcriptomics/RNA | |||
| Time | Talk | Title | Presenter | Affiliations |
| 11:00 am to 11:15 am | 1 | Characterisation of transcript expression in placenta across early gestation reveals variable transcript usage | Konstantinos Bogias | University of Adelaide |
| 11:15 am to 11:30 am | 2 | linc2function: Predicting function of lncRNA transcripts using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Model | Yashpal Ramakrishnaiah | Monash University |
| 11:30 am to 11:45 am | 3 | Revealing interactions between coding and non-coding transcripts in plants using heterogeneous networks | Joel Robertson | RMIT University |
| 11:45 am to 12:00 pm | 4 | Benchmarking single cell transcriptomes with bulk transcriptional atlases. | Yidi Deng | University of Melbourne |
| 12:00 pm to 12:15 pm | 5 | Systematic evaluation for metrics of gene expression variability in single-cell RNA sequencing data | Huiwen Zheng | University of Queensland |
| 12:15 pm to 12:30 pm | 6 | Discovery of Tissue-specific Gene Expression Patterns in CD8 T Cells by Single-cell RNA-seq | Ying Zheng | Australian National University |
| 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm | Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Patricia Sullivan | Session 2: Genomics | |||
| 1:15 pm to 1:30 pm | 7 | A Deep Learning Approach to Recover Combination of Biologically Significant Motifs | Tarun Bonu | Monash University |
| 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm | 8 | Alu Repeat Diversity in the Human Genome | Renzo Balboa | Australian National University |
| 1:45 pm to 2:00 pm | 9 | Quantifying negative selection on synonymous variants | Mikhail Gudkov | Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute |
| 2:00 pm to 2:15 pm | 10 | Identifying blocks free of recombinant haplotypes in human genomes using character-compatibility | Tim McInerney | Australian National University |
| 2:15 pm to 2:30 pm | 11 | Pseudo-alignment technique for accurate detection of disease-causing variants in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia | Jacqueline Rehn | South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute |
| 2:30 pm to 3:15 pm | Flash talks | |||
| 3:15 pm to 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| Chair: Thomas Litster | Session 3: Non model & Biomed | |||
| 3:30 pm to 3:45 pm | 12 | PACIFIC: A lightweight deep-learning classifier of SARS-CoV-2 and co-infecting RNA viruses | Pablo Acera Mateos | Australian National University |
| 4:00 pm to 4:15 pm | 13 | A multi-step model for micobiome data with application to Parkinson’s disease prediction | Xiangnan Xu | University of Sydney |
| 4:15 pm to 4:30 pm | 14 | A high-quality reference genome for the plant pathogen, Phytophthora cinnamomi | Amy Longmuir | Deakin University |
| 4:30 pm to 4:45 pm | 15 | Optimising genomic approaches for detection of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium transmission in the hospital environment | Charlie Higgs | University of Melbourne |
| 4:45 pm to 5:00 pm | Break | |||
| Careers panel and networking | ||||
| 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | Careers panel | |||
| 6:00 pm to 6:15 pm | Closing address | |||
| 6:15 pm till late | Networking session |