Zunair Khurram

This workshop introduces QIIME2 tools on Galaxy Australia, using 16S rRNA gene amplicon data from marsupial-associated bacteria. Date: 21 October 2026  Location: 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne  Cost: Free  Eligibility: Staff and students of the University of Melbourne and affiliated organisations, including COMBINE Lead trainers: Dr Tristan Reynolds (Melbourne Bioinformatics) and Dr Ashley Dungan (School

This workshop introduces best practices for writing R analyses using the Targets package, with a focus on building well-structured, efficient and reproducible workflows. Date: 8 October 2026  Location: 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne  Cost: Free  Eligibility: Staff and students of the University of Melbourne and affiliated organisations, including COMBINELead trainer: Michael Milton (WEHI)  More information

This beginner’s tutorial will introduce the Galaxy Australia interface and tools, how to run a simple analysis and how to turn an analysis into a Galaxy Workflow (pipeline). Date: 1 October 2026 Location: 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne Cost: Free Eligibility: Staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliated organisations (including COMBINE)

This course is designed for researchers who wish to learn how to use Python for basic data analysis and visualization. The session will focus on the use of data frame structures provided by the Pandas library, along with data visualization using Seaborn. Open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliated

Melbourne Bioinformatics is offering two free, beginner-friendly workshops providing a hands-on introduction to Python programming for data analysis. These sessions are open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliated organisations, including COMBINE. Workshop 1: Intro to Python – Part 1 Date: Thursday, 3 September 2026 Location: 21 Bedford St, North

Comparing gene expression, i.e. the amount of RNA transcript, in different experimental conditions provides important biological insights. While there’s many ways of measuring gene expression, the focus of this workshop will be (bulk) RNA-seq, a technology which measures gene expression across the whole transcriptome, i.e. all RNA transcripts, in a sample. Thu 20 August 2026

Attendees can expect to gain an understanding of approaches to and practical experience in: performing quality control of short read data, mapping reads to a reference genome and generating gene count tables. Places are limited to encourage discussion and experienced RNA-seq and Galaxy trainers will be present to answer your questions. Wed 19 August 2026

The 5th Asian Student Council Symposium (ASCS2026) is happening 17 November 2026 in Seoul, South Korea, ahead of ISCB-Asia. It’s a student-led event at the intersection of life sciences and computer science — oral and poster abstract submissions are now open. Abstracts due: end of this month Submit here: https://iscbsc.org/ascs2026/

Sarah didn’t set out to work in high-performance computing. She started in genetics, hunting disease genes in neuromuscular disorders across both the wet lab and the command line, and somehow ended up on the Supercomputing Applications team at Pawsey. In this fireside chat, she traces that path — from a PhD in Medicine to supporting