PROGRAM

Day 1: Wednesday 20 November

Lecture Theatre, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney

9.00 am	Registration
9.30 am	Welcome from the Academy Professor Steve Simpson AC FAA FRS, University of Sydney Welcome to Country Uncle Chicka Madden, Gadigal Elder
10.00 am	Keynote presentation: Metagenomics, evolution and virus emergence Professor Edward Holmes FAA FRS, University of Sydney
10.30 am	MORNING TEA
11.00 am	Tree Lab: portable genomics for early detection of plant viruses and pests in Sub-Saharan Africa Dr Laura Boykin, University of Western Australia
11.30 am	Ancient genomes shed light on the evolutionary history of sled dogs Associate Professor Shyam Gopalakrishnan, University of Copenhagen
12.00 pm	Reading the story of the genomes: why more data is not enough
	Professor Lindell Bromham, Australian National University
12.30 pm	LUNCH
1.30 pm	Integrating fossil flowers in angiosperm macroevolutionary analyses Dr Hervé Sauquet, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
2.00 pm	PRESENTATIONS BY ATTENDEES
	Agriculture, industry and conservation
2.00 pm		Investigating the transcriptomic response of chickpea roots to infection by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora medicaginis Mr Donovin Coles, Western Sydney University
2.10 pm		A marsupial puzzle using phylogenetics, biogeography and conservation Dr Margarita Medina, University of Canberra
2.20 pm		Back to the future with genetics: the role of genetics in forest conservation Dr Peter Harrison, University of Tasmania
	Ecology, evolution and genetics
2.30 pm		Approaching previously intractable acalyptrate fly phylogeny with transcriptome-based phylogenomics Dr Keith Bayless, Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
2.40 pm		Ancient DNA and Near Oceania: evaluating genetic methods in the study of zooarchaeological remains across Papua New Guinea Ms Sindy Luu, University of Otago
2.50 pm		Hackflex: low-cost Illumina sequencing library construction for large-scale sequencing Dr Kay Anantanawat, University of Technology Sydney
	Microbes, pathogens and health
3.00 pm		*Comparative genomics of E. coli* isolated from adult and paediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease and controls** Mrs Mukta Das Gupta, Australian National University
3.10 pm		Hunting the parasites of our parasites: a ‘deliberate’ exploration of viruses infecting human malaria protozoan parasites using meta-transcriptomic approaches Dr Justine Charon, University of Sydney
3.20 pm		Transmission at the human–wildlife interface: hospital patients share bacterial pathogens but not resistance genes with local silver gulls Dr Bethany Hoye, University of Wollongong
3.30 pm	Highlights from genetic studies of the Greenlandic population Dr Ida Moltke, University of Copenhagen
4.00 pm	END OF DAY 1
4.15–6.30 pm	Networking function

Day 2: Thursday 21 November

Auditoriums 1 and 2, Administration Building (F23), University of Sydney

8.30 am	Welcome tea and coffee
9.00 am	Workshop 1: Workflows for big data Dr Angela McGaughran, Australian National University
10.30 am	MORNING TEA
11.00 am	Workshop 2: Models in genomics and biodiversity analysis Dr Xia Hua, Australian National University
12.30 pm	LUNCH
1.30 pm	Workshop 3a: Spatial analysis of biodiversity Dr Dan Rosauer, Australian National University	Workshop 3b: Phylogenomics Dr David Duchêne, Australian National University Professor Simon Ho, University of Sydney
3.00 pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30 pm	Workshop 4a: Metagenomics and pathogen discovery Dr Jackie Mahar, University of Sydney Dr Mang Shi, University of Sydney Dr Jemma Geoghegan, Macquarie University	Workshop 4b: Genome-wide association studies Associate Professor Shyam Gopalakrishnan, University of Copenhagen Assistant Professor Ida Moltke, University of Copenhagen
5.00 pm	END OF DAY 2

Day 3: Friday 22 November

Auditoriums 1 and 2, Administration Building (F23), University of Sydney

8.30 am	Arrival tea and coffee
9.00 am	Career development workshop: Harnessing the power of mentoring in progressing your career Ms Bianca Havas, Serendis Leadership
10.30 am	MORNING TEA
11.00 am	Career development workshop: Understanding your signature strengths to develop your proposition Ms Bianca Havas, Serendis Leadership
1.00 pm	LUNCH
2.00 pm	Public talk: Wildlife detectives: the story of genome research, discovery and exploration at Australia's first museum Dr Rebecca Johnson, Australian Museum
3.00 pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30 pm	END OF EVENT