Program

Welcome and Opening

Keynote: Dr Ira Cooke, Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University

Contributed Talks

Morning Tea

Keynote: Dr Liz Ross, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland
Using nanopore sequencing to capture genome variation for breeding eco-friendly, productive animals in responseto a changing climate

Keynote: Professor Jian Yang, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China

Contributed Talks

ABACBS Annual General Meeting

Keynote: Dr Lauren Cowley, Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, UK

Keynote: Dr Minh Bui, School of Computing, Australian National University

Recent advances on improving phylogenomic inference and the IQ-TREE software

Contributed Talks

Afternoon Tea

Keynote: Dr Heejung Shim, The University of Melbourne

Contributed Talks

Flash Talks

Posters (Themes A, B, C, D)

Conference Dinner

Keynote: Dr Farhad Hormozdiari, HealthAI, Google Research, USA

‍Leveraging deep learning to improve our understanding of diseases and complex traits

Keynote: Dr Quan Nguyen, QIMR Berghofer and The University of Queensland

Morning tea

Contributed Talks

Keynote: Dr James McCafferty, Chief Information Officer, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

Supporting data-driven science at the Sanger Institute

Contributed Talks

Flash Talks

Posters (Themes E, F, G)

Keynote: Dr Jackie Han, Peking - Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, China

AI and aging

Contributed Talks

Afternoon tea

Contributed Talks

Awards and closing