Sunday 30 October
0830-1800
Conference Registration Opens
0900-1600
Pre-conference workshop (Registration required)
Viral Metagenomics with Hecatomb
1700-1800
Opening Oration Panel
20 years of Australasian Genomics and where to from here?

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Arrivals Lounge
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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
1800-2000
Welcome Reception & Exhibition
Welcome to Country
Kerry Neill, Director, Tribalink
Monday 31 October
0730-1730
Registration desk opens
With thanks to our Name Badge andLanyard sponsor
Exhibition opens

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Arrivals Lounge

Wandiny Room0800-1535

Enjoy barista made coffee with thanks to0830-0845

Official Welcome, Conference Opening and Acknowledgment to Country
Conference Convenors
Associate Prof Ruby C Y Lin
Dr Nic Waddell
Professor Marcel Dinger (AGTA President)

Session 1
Cancer and Medical Genomics
Chair & Co-chair | A/Prof Mark Cowley & Ashton Curry-hyde
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
0925-0950
National Speaker
Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines
Dr Qing Zhong, The University of Sydney

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Platinum Sponsor Presentation
Illumina technology improvements driving genomic insights
Dr. Anthony Beckhouse, Illumina

1010 –1040

Morning refreshments & exhibition
With thanks to our Morning
Refreshments sponsor

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National Speaker
Genomic basis for prostate cancer health disparities
Professor Vanessa Hayes, University of Sydney
1105The Q-IMPROvE (Queensland- IMplementation of PRecision Oncology in brEast
1120cancer) pilot study
Dr Amy Mccart Reed, The University of Queensland.
1120Evolving genomic complexity unveiled in ctDNA analysis of melanoma patients
1135
Dr Sandra Fitzgerald, University of Auckland
Lightning Presentations Session 1
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Chair & Co-chair | Dr Tamsin Robb & Huiwen Zheng
1135Identifying Metabolic Shift Gene Signature Pattern in The Wnt-Associated1138
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity Of The PMC42 Breast Cancer Model System
Prof Erik Thompson, Queensland University of Technology
1138Having our Cake and Eating it Too: Building Speculative Research into Clinical
1141
Genomics Studies
Dr Mark Pinese, Children's Cancer Institute1141Application of Long read sequencing (LRS) in cancer genomics
1144
Lingchen Liu, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute1144Predicting cell-type specific combinatorial binding of neuronal transcription factor
1147
network by Deep Learning
Gunjan Dixit, Australian National University
1147Value of RNA-sequencing in precision medicine expands beyond fusion detection
1150
Chelsea Mayoh, Children's Cancer Institute
1150A novel reference architecture for multi-party federation: enabling joint analysis of1153
large-scale clinical-genomic data across distributed Trusted Research Environments
Kent Zaitlik, Lifebit Biotech Limited
1153Flexible and efficient handling of nanopore sequencing signal data with slow5tools
1156
Hiruna Samarakoon, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
1156Shotgun microbial profiling reveals geo-ethnic disparities in aggressive prostate1159
cancer
Dr Kaitao Lai, The University of Sydney
1159Sequencing By Binding (SBB) Shows Superior Sensitivity and Specificity of Detection
1202of Low Frequency Variants from ctDNA
Dr James Miller, PacBio
1205Lunch & Exhibition
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1305
With thanks to our Lunch
sponsorSession 2Plant and Animal Genomics
Chair & Co-chair | A/Prof Mirana Ramialison & Jillian Hammond

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Welcome from Platinum Sponsor
Dr. Anthony Beckhouse, Illumina

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Keynote Presenter
Animal Genomics Enables Selection and Dissemination of Improved Livestock
Prof Alison van Eenennaam, University of California, Davis
1348Multi-omics analysis of O. corymbosa reveals the biosynthesis of anti-cancer
1403
metabolites
Dr Irene Julca, Nanyang Technological University
1403The Australian Dingo is an Early Offshoot of Modern Breed Dogs
1418
A/Prof Matt Field, James Cook University
PhD runner ups
1418Assessing the effects of date and sequence data in phylodynamics
1425
Leo Featherstone, University of Melbourne
1425A novel non-invasive method to infer fetal genotype in pregnancy
1432
Carol Wang, University of Newcastle
1435Afternoon refreshments & Exhibition & Poster Session
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1535
With thanks to our Afternoon
Refreshments sponsor
Session 3
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Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics
Chair & Co-chair | Dr Mark Pinese & Lochlan Fennell
1535National Speaker
1600
Viral extraction, sequencing, and identification with hecatomb
Professor Rob Edwards, Flinders University
1600Keynote Presenter
1640
The Origin and Evolution of COVID-19: A Genomic Perspective
Professor Eddie Holmes, The University of Sydney
1640Machine learning to predict BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity from real1655
world cancer genomic profiling data
Dr Olga Kondrashova, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
1655Mining the Cancer Contaminome for MAGs – Intra-tumoural Microbiome
1710
Signatures are associated with Patient Mortality in Head and Neck Squamous Cell
Carcinomas
George Bouras, The University of Adelaide
1800Student Night – Registered Students Only
Sola Restaurant
2000
Deck
1800VIP Function – By Invitation only
Lily’s on the2100
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0815-1800Registration desk opens
Exhibition opens
Enjoy barista made coffee with thanks to0830-1535

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Wandiny RoomSession 4
Indigenous and Population Genomics
Chair & Co-chair | Prof Vanessa Hayes & Dr Andrew Lonsdale0855-0900
Welcome to Day 2
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0900-0925
National Speaker
Empowering Indigenous Australians in Genomic Medicine
Professor Alex Brown, Australian National University
0925-0950
National Speaker
Indigenous Australian genomic variation reveals deep population structure
Professor Stephen Leslie, The University of Melbourne
0950-1005
Influence of geographical variations on the structure of human gut microbiome
Gauraw Kumar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
1005-1020
A long-read nanopore sequencing platform for Indigenous genomics
Dr Andre Reis, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
1020-1035
A Population Genomics Approach to Prostate Cancer in Diverse Geo-ethnic
SamplesDr Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, The University of Sydney1035-1105
Morning Refreshments and Exhibition
Wandiny RoomWith thanks to our Morning
Refreshments sponsor

Session 5
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Functional and Clinical Genomics
Chair & Co-chair | Prof Robert Edwards & Dr Berenice Talamantes Becerra
1105-1145
Keynote Presenter
Long-read sequencing in cancer and rare disease genomics – the Genomics
England experience
Prof Matt Brown, Genomics England
1145-1210
National Speaker
Human Cardiac Organoids for Functional Genomics
Professor James Hudson, QIMR Berghofer
1210-1225
Genome Wide Mapping of Physiologically Relevant i-Motifs Using an i-Motif
Specific Nanobody
Dr Samuel Ross, University of New South Wales
1225-1240
Tracking transcriptional evolution in cancer using circulating tumour DNA
Dr Dineika Chandrananda, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
1240-1255
Identifying integrations of a clinical gene therapy vector with isling
Dr Suzanne Scott, Children's Medical Research Institute1255-1355
Lunch & exhibition
Wandiny RoomWith thanks to our Lunch sponsor

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Microbial Metagenomics
Chair & Co-chair | Dr Nouri Ben Zakour & George Bouras

1355 – 1358

Welcome from Platinum Sponsor
Dr Bicheng Yang, BGI Australia

1358-1438

Keynote Presenter
The Use of Targeted Microbial Therapeutics to Improve Health – Are We ThereYet?
Professor Georgina Hold, University of New South Wales
Beer Presentation
Jack Black, Your Mates Brewing Co.
Screening high-risk paediatric cancer for microbial DNA using whole-genomesequencing data
Sam El-kamand, Children's Cancer Institute
Drug resistance prediction with reference graphs
Dr Michael Hall, University of Melbourne
The importance of deciphering the bacterial epitranscriptome and utilising
native long-read RNA sequencing
Dr Miranda Pitt, University of Melbourne
Exhibition Viewing, Poster Session & Afternoon refreshments
Wandiny RoomWith thanks to our Afternoon
Refreshments sponsor

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1443-1458

1458-1513
1513-1528

1528-1623

Session 7
Viral Genomics
Chair & Co-chair | Dr Nic Waddell & Dr Jessica Mar
Platinum Sponsor Presentation
WGS for newborn screening of an unselected 10k children cohort
Dr. Mingyan Fang, BGI Research Asia-Pacific1625-1645

1645-1700

1700-1715
1715-1745
1830-2200

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Improving gene therapy delivery by optimizing the capsid and DNA packaging ofAAVs
Dr Anne Klein, CSIRO
What can we learn from the human panvirome?
Dr Michael Roach, Flinders University
AGTA Annual General Meeting
Conference Dinner
Arrivals Lounge
Dress Code: Casual
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Wednesday 2 November
0830-1500
Registration desk opens
0830-1330
Exhibition opens

Arrivals Lounge
Wandiny Room

Enjoy barista made coffee with thanks toSession 8Single Cell and Spatial Genomics
Chair & Co-chair| Lachlan Coin & Berivan Temiz
0855-0900
Welcome to Day Three
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Keynote Presentation
Setting up single cell experiments: lots of considerations
Associate Professor Luciano Martelotto, University of Adelaide
0940-1005
National Speaker
Designing and analysing complex single cell experiments
Professor Alicia Oshlack, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
1005-1020
A single-cell and spatially resolved atlas of human breast cancers
Dr Daniel Roden, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
1020-1050
Morning refreshments & Exhibition
Wandiny Room1050-1105
Multi-omic machine learning approach for survivability prediction in breast
cancerKhoa Tran, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute1105-1120
MultiGO: A multi sample approach for gene expression pathway enrichmentanalysis
Dr Devika Ganesamoorthy, The University of Queensland
1120-1135
Genomics through a HoloLens: Cancer Evolution in Augmented Reality
Dr Tamsin Robb, University of Auckland
Lightning Presentations Session 2
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Chair & Co-chair | Dr Sandra Fitzgerald & Dr Venkateswar Addala1135-1138
Assembling high-quality sea snake genomes to investigate the genetic basis ofaquatic adaptation
Jillian Hammond, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
1138-1141
Stereopy as an advanced tool in interpreting spatial transcriptomics data
Dr Kira Xiaohuan Sun, BGI
1141-1144
The Spatial Biology Revolution: multi-omic whole-transcriptome GeoMx
profiling combined with sub-cellular resolved Spatial Molecular Imaging
Michael Rhodes, NanoString Technologies
1144-1147
Automated processing of solid tissues into single cells or nuclei for genomics andcell biology applications with the Singulator™ 100 system
Dr Janette Tong, TrendBio
1147-1150
Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Exploration in Virtual Reality
Denis Bienroth, Murdoch Children's Research Institute1150-1153
Characterization of Botrylloides diegensis whole body regeneration throughsingle-cell RNA-sequencing
Berivan Temiz, University of Otago
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 Institute1156-1159
Investigating the epitranscriptome in human tissues
Ashton Curry-hyde, University of New South Wales
1200-1305
Lunch & Exhibition
Wandiny Room

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Emerging Technology
Chair & Co-chair | Professor James Hudson & Dr Michael Roach
1305-1310
Virtual Introduction
Dr Chris Mason, Weill Cornell Medicine, and WorldQuant Initiative forQuantitative Prediction
Due to unforeseen circumstances Dr Chris Mason will present a short speech
virtually.
1310-1345
Closing Invited Speaker Presentation
The Microbial Waypoints on our Path to Mars
Dr. Braden Tierney, Cornell University
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 Institute1410-1425
Identifying candidate circulating RNA biomarkers for coronary artery disease bydeep RNA-Sequencing in human plasma
Dr Anna Pilbrow, University of Otago
1425-1440
Decode the Stable Cell Communications Based on Neuropeptide-Receptors
Network in 36746 Tumor Cells
Dr Min Zhao, University of The Sunshine Coast
1440-1510
Awards Ceremony, 2023 Conference Launch and Conference Close
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