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 online 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.
Meetup Schedule
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Date Speaker Topic More information 27/8/2026 Hasindu Gamaarachchi (UNSW) An Open-source Ecosystem for Scalable & Computationally Efficient Nanopore Data Processing When: 10am
Where: Zoom (pw: 271894)24/9/2026 Manveer Chauhan (Melbourne) Multiscale characterisation of schizophrenia using patient derived organoids, transcriptomics, and neuroimaging When: 10am
Where: Zoom (pw: 271894)29/10/2026 Shani Amarasinghe (Monash) TBD When: 10am
Where: Zoom (pw: 271894)26/11/2026 George He (MCRI) TBD When: 10am
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Date Speaker Topic More information 4/12/2025 Wytamma Wirth (University of Melbourne) Client-side Bioinformatics: Building bioinformatics tools for the browser with WebAssembly 30/10/2025 Tom Harrop (Australian BioCommons) Automating genome assembly for the Australian Tree of Life project 25/09/2025 Melissa Hernandez Poveda (University of Melbourne) The Snowy Mountains Frogs: A Story Fighting for Survival 28/08/2025 Melissa Carew (University of Melbourne) Bioinformatics and biodiversity: creating a workflow for invertebrate DNA metabarcoding data 31/07/2025 Stephen Frankenberg (University of Melbourne) Genetically engineering wildlife for good instead of evil 26/06/2025 Keiran Rowell (UNSW) Working with ProteinFold: high performance protein structure prediction from a simple spreadsheet 28/11/2024 Matias Silva (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Staying ahead of the game: Genomics in the Australian Biosecurity Research Environment 26/09/2024 Amara Jabeen (Macquarie University) Chromosome-Scale 3D Genomics in Coral Hybrids 29/08/2024 Etienne Mueller (University of Melbourne) Converting Brain Imaging Data to Artificial Neural Networks 25/07/2024 Danny Park (Melbourne Bioinformatics) An overview of some common neural network architectures 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 29/06/2023 Davide Vespasiani (WEHI) Using scRNA-seq to investigate gene expression differences across species for blood-related cells 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) 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:
HPC Dashboard
Cloud Dashboard
Orion Researcher Desktop
RCS Storage
RCS TrainingEmail 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