SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER
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| 0830 – 1800 | Conference Registration Opens | Arrivals Lounge |
| 0900 – 1600 | Pre-conference workshop (Registration required) Viral Metagenomics with Hecatomb |
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| 1700 – 1800 | Opening Oration Panel 20 years of Australasian Genomics and where to from here? Moderator Associate Prof Ruby C Y Lin, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research Panellists Prof Sean Grimmond, The University of Melbourne Prof Vanessa Hayes, University of Sydney Prof John Mattick, University of New South Wales |
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| 1800 – 2000 | Welcome Reception & Exhibition Welcome to Country Kerry Neill, Director, Tribalink |
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MONDAY 31 OCTOBER
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| 0730 – 1730 | Registration Desk Opens With thanks to our Name Badge and Lanyard sponsor  |
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| 0800 – 1535 | Exhibition Opens Enjoy barista made coffee with thanks to  |
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| 0830 – 0845 | Official Welcome, Conference Opening and Acknowledgment to Country
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| Session 1 Cancer and Medical Genomics Chair & Co-chair | A/Prof Mark Cowley & Ashton Curry-hyde |
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| 0845 – 0925 | Keynote Presenter Ending diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment odysseys: Transforming data into clinically actionable knowledge Dr Elizabeth Worthey, The University of Alabama at Birmingham |
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| 0925 – 0950 | National Speaker Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines Dr Qing Zhong, The University of Sydney |
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| 0950 – 1010 | Platinum Sponsor Presentation Illumina technology improvements driving genomic insights Dr. Anthony Beckhouse, Illumina |
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| 1010 – 1040 | Morning Refreshments & Exhibition With thanks to our Morning Refreshments sponsor  |
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| 1040 – 1105 | National Speaker Genomic basis for prostate cancer health disparities Professor Vanessa Hayes, University of Sydney |
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| 1105 – 1120 | The Q-IMPROvE (Queensland- IMplementation of PRecision Oncology in brEast cancer) pilot study Dr Amy Mccart Reed, The University of Queensland |
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| 1120 – 1135 | Evolving genomic complexity unveiled in ctDNA analysis of melanoma patients Dr Sandra Fitzgerald, University of Auckland |
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| Lightning Presentations Session 1 Chair & Co-chair | Dr Tamsin Robb & Huiwen Zheng |
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| 1135 – 1138 | Identifying Metabolic Shift Gene Signature Pattern In The Wnt-Associated Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity Of The PMC42 Breast Cancer Model System Prof Erik Thompson, Queensland University of Technology |
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| 1138 – 1141 | Having our Cake and Eating it Too: Building Speculative Research into Clinical Genomics Studies Dr Mark Pinese, Children’s Cancer Institute |
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| 1141 – 1144 | Application of Long read sequencing (LRS) in cancer genomics Lingchen Liu, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute |
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| 1144 – 1147 | Predicting cell-type specific combinatorial binding of neuronal transcription factor network by Deep Learning Gunjan Dixit, Australian National University |
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| 1147 – 1150 | Value of RNA-sequencing in precision medicine expands beyond fusion detection Chelsea Mayoh, Children’s Cancer Institute |
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| 1150 – 1153 | A novel reference architecture for multi-party federation: enabling joint analysis of large-scale clinical-genomic data across distributed Trusted Research Environments Kent Zaitlik, Lifebit Biotech Limited |
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| 1153 – 1156 | Flexible and efficient handling of nanopore sequencing signal data with slow5tools Hiruna Samarakoon, Garvan Institute of Medical Research |
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| 1156 – 1159 | Shotgun microbial profiling reveals geo-ethnic disparities in aggressive prostate cancer Dr Kaitao Lai, The University of Sydney |
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| 1159 – 1202 | Sequencing By Binding (SBB) Shows Superior Sensitivity and Specificity of Detection of Low Frequency Variants from ctDNA Dr James Miller, PacBio |
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| 1205 – 1305 | Lunch & Exhibition With thanks to our Lunch sponsor |
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| Session 2 Plant and Animal Genomics Chair & Co-chair | A/Prof Mirana Ramialison & Jillian Hammond |
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| 1305 – 1308 | Welcome from Platinum Sponsor Dr. Anthony Beckhouse, Illumina |
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| 1308 – 1348 | Keynote Presenter Animal Genomics Enables Selection and Dissemination of Improved Livestock Prof Alison van Eenennaam, University of California, Davis |
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| 1348 – 1403 | Multi-omics analysis of O. corymbosa reveals the biosynthesis of anti-cancer metabolites Dr Irene Julca, Nanyang Technological University |
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| 1403 – 1418 | The Australian Dingo is an Early Offshoot of Modern Breed Dogs A/Prof Matt Field, James Cook University |
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| 1418 – 1425 | Assessing the effects of date and sequence data in phylodynamics Leo Featherstone, University of Melbourne |
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| 1425 – 1432 | A novel non-invasive method to infer fetal genotype in pregnancy Carol Wang, University of Newcastle |
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| 1435 – 1535 | Afternoon refreshments & Exhibition & Poster Session With thanks to our Afternoon Refreshments sponsor |
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| Session 3 Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics Chair & Co-chair | Dr Mark Pinese & Dr Lochlan Fennell |
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| 1535 – 1600 | National Speaker Viral extraction, sequencing, and identification with hecatomb Professor Rob Edwards, Flinders University |
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| 1600-1640 | Keynote Presenter The Origin and Evolution of COVID-19: A Genomic Perspective Professor Eddie Holmes, The University of Sydney |
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| 1640 – 1655 | Machine learning to predict BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity from real-world cancer genomic profiling data Dr Olga Kondrashova, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute |
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| 1655 – 1710 | Mining the Cancer Contaminome for MAGs – Intra-tumoural Microbiome Signatures are associated with Patient Mortality in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas George Bouras, The University of Adelaide |
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| 1800- 2000 | Student Night – Registered Students Only | Sola Restaurant Deck |
| 1800 – 2100 | VIP Function – By Invitation only | Lily’s on the Lagoon |
TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER
| 0815 – 1800 | Registration desk open | Arrivals Lounge |
| 0830 – 1535 | Exhibition open Enjoy barista made coffee with thanks to |
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| Session 4 Indigenous and Population Genomics Chair & Co-chair | Prof Vanessa Hayes & Dr Andrew Lonsdale |
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| 0855 – 0900 | Welcome to Day 2 | Minyama 1 |
| 0900 – 0925 | National Speaker Empowering Indigenous Australians in Genomic Medicine Professor Alex Brown, Australian National University |
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| 0925 – 0950 | National Speaker Indigenous Australian genomic variation reveals deep population structure Professor Stephen Leslie, The University of Melbourne |
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| 0950 – 1005 | Influence of geographical variations on the structure of human gut microbiome Gauraw Kumar, Indian Institute Of Science Education And Research Kolkata, India |
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| 1005 – 1020 | A long-read nanopore sequencing platform for Indigenous genomics Dr Andre Reis, Garvan Institute of Medical Research |
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| 1020 – 1035 | A Population Genomics Approach to Prostate Cancer in Diverse Geo-ethnic Samples Dr Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, The University Of Sydney |
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| 1035 – 1105 | Morning Refreshments and Exhibition With thanks to our Morning Refreshments sponsor  |
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| Session 5 Functional and Clinical Genomics Chair & Co-chair | Prof Robert Edwards & Dr Berenice Talamantes Becerra |
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| 1105-1145 | Keynote Presenter Long-read sequencing in cancer and rare disease genomics – the Genomics England experience Prof Matt Brown, Genomics England |
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| 1145-1210 | National Speaker Human Cardiac Organoids for Functional Genomics Professor James Hudson, QIMR Berghofer |
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| 1210-1225 | Genome Wide Mapping of Physiologically Relevant i-Motifs Using an i-Motif Specific Nanobody Dr Samuel Ross, University of New South Wales |
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| 1225-1240 | Tracking transcriptional evolution in cancer using circulating tumour DNA Dr Dineika Chandrananda, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre |
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| 1240-1255 | Identifying integrations of a clinical gene therapy vector with isling Dr Suzanne Scott, Children’s Medical Research Institute |
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| 1255-1355 | Lunch & exhibition With thanks to our Lunch sponsor |
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| Session 6 Microbial Metagenomics Chair & Co-chair | Dr Nouri Ben Zakour & George Bouras |
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| 1355 – 1358 | Welcome from Platinum Sponsor Dr Bicheng Yang, BGI Australia  |
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| 1358 – 1438 | Keynote Presenter The Use of Targeted Microbial Therapeutics to Improve Health – Are We There Yet? Professor Georgina Hold, University of New South Wales |
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| 1438 – 1443 | Beer Presentation Jack Black, Your Mates Brewing Co. |
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| 1443 – 1458 | Screening high-risk paediatric cancer for microbial DNA using whole-genome-sequencing data Sam El-kamand, Children’s Cancer Institute |
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| 1458 – 1513 | Drug resistance prediction with reference graphs Dr Michael Hall, University of Melbourne |
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| 1513 – 1528 | The importance of deciphering the bacterial epitranscriptome and utilising native long-read RNA sequencing Dr Miranda Pitt, University of Melbourne |
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| 1528 – 1623 | Exhibition Viewing, Poster Session & Afternoon refreshments With thanks to our Afternoon Refreshments sponsor |
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| Session 7 Viral Genomics Chair & Co-chair | Dr Nic Waddell & Dr Jessica Mar |
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| 1625 – 1645 | Platinum Sponsor Presentation WGS for newborn screening of an unselected 10k children cohort Dr. Mingyan Fang, BGI Research Asia-Pacific |
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| 1645 – 1700 | Improving gene therapy delivery by optimizing the capsid and DNA packaging of AAVs Dr Anne Klein, CSIRO |
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| 1700 – 1715 | What can we learn from the human panvirome? Dr Michael Roach, Flinders University |
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| 1715 – 1745 | AGTA Annual General Meeting | |
| 1830 – 2200 | Conference Dinner proudly sponsored by |
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WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER
| 0830 – 1500 | Registration desk open | Arrivals Lounge |
| 0830 – 1330 | Exhibition opens Enjoy barista made coffee with thanks to |
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| Session 8 Single Cell and Spatial Genomics Chair & Co-chair | Dr Lachlan Coin & Berivan Temiz |
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| 0855 – 0900 | Welcome to Day Three | |
| 0900 – 0940 | Keynote Presenter Setting up single cell experiments: lots of considerations Associate Professor Luciano Martelotto, University of Adelaide |
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| 0940 – 1005 | National Speaker Designing and analysing complex single cell experiments Professor Alicia Oshlack, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre |
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| 1005 – 1020 | A single-cell and spatially resolved atlas of human breast cancers Dr Daniel Roden, Garvan Institute of Medical Research |
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| 1020 – 1050 | Morning Refreshments and Exhibition | Wandiny Room |
| 1050- 1105 | Multi-omic machine learning approach for survivability prediction in breast cancer Khoa Tran, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute |
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| 1105 – 1120 | MultiGO: A multi sample approach for gene expression pathway enrichment analysis Dr Devika Ganesamoorthy, The University of Queensland |
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| 1120 – 1135 | Genomics through a HoloLens: Cancer Evolution in Augmented Reality Dr Tamsin Robb, University of Auckland |
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| Lightning Presentations Session 2 Chair & Co-chair | Dr Sandra Fitzgerald & Dr Venkateswar Addala |
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| 1135 – 1138 | Assembling high-quality sea snake genomes to investigate the genetic basis of aquatic adaptation Jillian Hammond, Garvan Institute of Medical Research |
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| 1138 – 1141 | Stereopy as an advanced tool in interpreting spatial transcriptomics data Dr Kira Xiaohuan Sun, BGI |
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| 1141 – 1144 | The Spatial Biology Revolution: multi-omic whole-transcriptome GeoMx profiling combined with sub-cellular resolved Spatial Molecular Imaging Michael Rhodes, NanoString Technologies |
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| 1144 – 1147 | Automated processing of solid tissues into single cells or nuclei for genomics and cell biology applications with the Singulator™ 100 system Dr Janette Tong, TrendBio |
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| 1147 – 1150 | Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Exploration in Virtual Reality Denis Bienroth, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
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| 1150 – 1153 | Characterization of Botrylloides diegensis whole body regeneration through single-cell RNA-sequencing Berivan Temiz, University of Otago |
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| 1153 – 1156 | Hey Siri, how can I use Deep Learning for Variant Calling in my Familial Whole Genome Sequencing Studies? Macabe Daley, Children’s Cancer Institute |
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| 1156 – 1159 | Investigating the epitranscriptome in human tissues Ashton Curry-hyde, University of New South Wales |
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| 1200 – 1305 | Lunch & exhibition | Wandiny Room |
| Session 9 Emerging Technology Chair & Co-chair | Professor James Hudson & Dr Michael Roach |
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| 1305 – 1310 | Virtual Introduction Prof Chris Mason, Weill Cornell Medicine, and WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction Due to unforeseen circumstances Dr Chris Mason will present a short speech virtually. |
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| 1310 – 1345 | International Invited Speaker The Microbial Waypoints on our Path to Mars Dr. Braden Tierney, Cornell University |
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| 1345 – 1410 | National Speaker Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics For Deciphering Gene Regulatory Networks in Heart Development and Disease A/Prof Mirana Ramialison, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
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| 1410 – 1425 | Identifying candidate circulating RNA biomarkers for coronary artery disease by deep RNA-Sequencing in human plasma Dr Anna Pilbrow, University of Otago |
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| 1425 – 1440 | Decode the Stable Cell Communications Based on Neuropeptide-Receptors Network in 36746 Tumor Cells Dr Min Zhao, University of The Sunshine Coast |
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| 1440 – 1510 | Awards Ceremony, 2023 Conference Launch and Conference Close | |
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