Conference Presentations – AGTA 2022 Annual Conference

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER

Session 1 - Cancer and Medical Genomics

Ending diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment odysseys: Transforming data into clinically actionable knowledge
Dr Elizabeth Worthey

Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines
Dr Qing Zhong

The Q-IMPROvE (Queensland- IMplementation of PRecision Oncology in brEast cancer) pilot study
Dr Amy Mccart Reed

Evolving genomic complexity unveiled in ctDNA analysis of melanoma patients
Dr Sandra Fitzgerald

Lightning Presentations Session 1

Identifying Metabolic Shift Gene Signature Pattern In The Wnt-Associated Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity Of The PMC42 Breast Cancer Model System
Prof Erik Thompson

Having our Cake and Eating it Too: Building Speculative Research into Clinical Genomics Studies
Dr Mark Pinese

Application of Long read sequencing (LRS) in cancer genomics
Lingchen Liu

Value of RNA-sequencing in precision medicine expands beyond fusion detection
Chelsea Mayoh

A novel reference architecture for multi-party federation: enabling joint analysis of large-scale clinical-genomic data across distributed Trusted Research Environments
Kent Zaitlik

Flexible and efficient handling of nanopore sequencing signal data with slow5tools
Hiruna Samarakoon

Shotgun microbial profiling reveals geo-ethnic disparities in aggressive prostate cancer
Dr Kaitao Lai

Sequencing By Binding (SBB) Shows Superior Sensitivity and Specificity of Detection of Low Frequency Variants from ctDNA
Dr James Miller

Session 2 - Plant and Animal Genomics

Animal Genomics Enables Selection and Dissemination of Improved Livestock
Prof Alison van Eenennaam

Multi-omics analysis of O. corymbosa reveals the biosynthesis of anti-
Dr Irene Julca

The Australian Dingo is an Early Offshoot of Modern Breed Dogs
A/Prof Matt Field

Session 3 - Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics

Viral extraction, sequencing, and identification with hecatomb
Professor Rob Edwards

The Origin and Evolution of COVID-19: A Genomic Perspective
Professor Eddie Holmes

Machine learning to predict BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity from real-world cancer genomic profiling data
Dr Olga Kondrashova

Mining the Cancer Contaminome for MAGs – Intra-tumoural Microbiome Signatures are associated with Patient Mortality in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas
George Bouras

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Session 4 - Indigenous and Population Genomics

Empowering Indigenous Australians in Genomic Medicine
Professor Alex Brown

Influence of geographical variations on the structure of human gut microbiome
Gauraw Kumar

A Population Genomics Approach to Prostate Cancer in Diverse Geo-ethnic Samples
Dr Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri

Session 5 - Functional and Clinical Genomics

Long-read sequencing in cancer and rare disease genomics – the Genomics England experience
Prof Matt Brown

Human Cardiac Organoids for Functional Genomics
Professor James Hudson

Identifying integrations of a clinical gene therapy vector with isling
Dr Suzanne Scott

Session 6 - Microbial Metagenomics

The Use of Targeted Microbial Therapeutics to Improve Health – Are We There Yet?
Professor Georgina Hold

Beer Presentation
Christian McGarry

Drug resistance prediction with reference graphs
Dr Michael Hall

Session 7 - Viral Genomics

Improving gene therapy delivery by optimizing the capsid and DNA packaging of AAVs
Dr Anne Klein

What can we learn from the human panvirome?
Dr Michael Roach

Session 8 - Single Cell and Spatial Genomics

Setting up single cell experiments: lots of considerations
Associate Professor Luciano Martelotto

Designing and analysing complex single cell experiments
Professor Alicia Oshlack

MultiGo: Multi-omic machine learning approach for survivability prediction in breast cancer
Khoa Tran

MultiGo: A multi sample approach for gene expression pathway enrichment analysis
Dr Devika Ganesamoorthy

Genomics through a HoloLens: Cancer Evolution in Augmented Reality
Dr Tamsin Robb

Lightning Presentations Session 2

Assembling high-quality sea snake genomes to investigate the genetic basis of aquatic adaptation
Jillian Hammond

Stereopy as an advanced tool in interpreting spatial transcriptomics data
Dr Kira Xiaohuan Sun

The Spatial Biology Revolution: multi-omic whole-transcriptome GeoMx profiling combined with sub-cellular resolved Spatial Molecular Imaging
Michael Rhodes

Automated processing of solid tissues into single cells or nuclei for genomics and cell biology applications with the Singulator™ 100 system
Dr Janette Tong

Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Exploration in Virtual Reality
Denis Bienroth

Characterization of Botrylloides diegensis whole body regeneration through single-cell RNA-sequencing
Berivan Temiz

Hey Siri, how can I use Deep Learning for Variant Calling in my Familial Whole Genome Sequencing Studies?
Macabe Daley

Investigating the epitranscriptome in human tissues
Ashton Curry-hyde

Session 9 - Emerging Technology

The Microbial Waypoints on our Path to Mars
Dr. Braden Tierney

Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics For Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks in Heart Development and Disease
A/Prof Mirana Ramialison

Identifying candidate circulating RNA biomarkers for coronary artery disease by deep RNA-Sequencing in human plasma
Dr Anna Pilbrow

Decode the Stable Cell Communications Based on Neuropeptide-Receptors Network in 36746 Tumor Cells
Dr Min Zhao