Bioinformatics Meetups
Bioinformatics Meetups
Overview
Welcome to our monthly Bioinformatics Meetups!
We’re a community of people doing bioinformatics in Victoria, organised by Melbourne Bioinformatics and convened by Tom Harrop and Steven Morgan.
We hold informal Meetups where we share tools, approaches, and problems. Each session starts with a 20-minute talk followed by open discussion. Whether you’re a solo bioinformatician in a wet lab or part of a bioinformatics group or core, there’s always something new to learn from each other.
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Meetups Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30/11/2023 | Saritha Kodikara (Melbourne Integrative Genomics) | Statistical challenges in longitudinal microbiome data analysis | |
| 19/10/2023 | Jack Scanlan (University of Melbourne) | Developing a deep amplicon sequencing approach to genotype complex loci in whole fungal populations | |
| 28/09/2023 | Michael Nakai (COMBINE) | Collaborating, Networking and Growing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology through COMBINE | |
| 31/08/2023 | Ryan Wick (Doherty Institute) | Tiny Pores, Big Contigs: Advancements in ONT Sequencing | |
| CANCELLED | |||
| 29/06/2023 | Davide Vespasiani (WEHI) | Using scRNA-seq to investigate gene expression differences across species for blood-related cells |
Previous Meetups
| Date | Speaker | Topic | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27/10/2022 | Shani Amarasinghe (Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute) | Single cell pre-processing with scPipe | |
| 13/10/2022 | Danny Park (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | Doing bioinformatics on a M1 Mac | |
| 15/09/2022 | Cameron Hyde (QCIF/Galaxy Australia) | Using AlphaFold2 on Galaxy | |
| 18/08/2022 | Stefano Mangiola (WEHI) | Tidy transcriptomics for single-cell and bulk RNA-seq | |
| 21/07/2022 | Ash Porter (Doherty Institute) | The power of epidemiological metadata in phylogeography models | |
| 07/07/2022 | Ramyar Molania (WEHI) | Batch effects in RNA-seq data | |
| 23/06/2022 | Priyanka Pillai (MDAP) | Case studies in health informatics | |
| 26/05/2022 | Steven Morgan (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | BLAST – why it’s still relevant | |
| 12/05/2022 | Torsten Seemann (Peter Doherty Institute) | Manipulating tabular data on the command line with csvtk | Slides |
| 28/04/2022 | Quentin Gouil (WEHI) | Long-read sequencing: principles, methods and applications | Slides |
| 14/04/2022 | Stephanie Portelli (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne) | Analysing missense mutations using structural bioinformatics techniques | Slides |
| 31/03/2022 | Craig Morton (Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21) | 'Alphafold2: What’s in it for me?' | Slides |
| 17/03/2022 | Simon Gladman (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | Galaxy Australia | |
| 09/12/2021 | Gareth Price (Galaxy Australia) | New high memory nodes now available to all Galaxy Australia users | |
| 25/11/2021 | Jacqueline Heighway (Florey Institute) | Accessing publicly available RNA-seq data to support your research | Slides |
| 11/11/2021 | Tom Harrop (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | A short practical intro to Singularity containers | Slides |
| 28/10/2021 | Bernie Pope (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | Hatch, a plotting library | Slides |
| 14/10/2021 | Dave Clarke, CSIRO/University of Melbourne, MSc (Bioinformatics) | Finding Genes with Hidden Markov Models: How? Does it Work? | Slides |
| 30/09/2021 | Sean Crosby (Research Computing Services) | HPC options for your data analysis | Helpful links from Sean’s talk: Email Sean at scrosby@unimelb.edu.au to discuss your computational needs |
| 16/09/2021 | Bobbie Shaban (MDAP) | Introduction to workflow managers | Slides |
| 02/09/2021 | Jessica Chung (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | Reproducible research principles of data analysis | Slides |
| 19/08/2021 | Chol-Hee Jung (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | Data quality – Know what you have | Slides |
| 05/08/2021 | Gayle Philip (Melbourne Bioinformatics) | Good practices: data and metadata to facilitate analyses | Slides |