Stream 5: Genetics and Genomics
Stream coordinators: Tony Merriman, University of Otago, New Zealand Christine Wells, Griffith University, Australia
Symposium 1 Date & time Monday 11am 7th December Title Transcriptomics Next generation technologies, analysis and RNA applications Chairs Nicole Cloonan University of Queensland Speaker 1 Nicole Cloonan University of Queensland Sequencing transcriptomes at single nucleotide resolution Speaker 2 Ryan Taft University of Queensland Nuclear localized tiny RNAs are associated with transcription starts sites in animals Jen Taylor CSIRO TBA from abstracts TBA from abstracts Speaker 3 TBA from abstracts Speaker 4 TBA from abstracts
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Tuesday 11am 8th December
eQTL
Rohan Williams Rohan Williams Australian National University Australian National University
New approaches to understanding inter- Detection of digital expression variation in the absence of a genome assembly individual variation in gene expression 4 Tuesday 2pm 8th December Genome Architecture The spatial and temporal behavior of genomes Christine Morris University of Otago Wan Lam British Columbia Cancer Research Center, UBC Jim Sikela University of Colorado DUF1220 Domains: Drivers of Genome Architecture, Human Brain Evolution and Disease Phil Wilcox Scion TBA from abstracts TBA from abstracts TBA from abstracts TBA from abstracts
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Tuesday 4pm 8th December
Population Structure
Phil Wilcox Scion
Patrick Sullivan University of North Carolina
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Wednesday 11am 9th December
Computational Biology
Ashley Buckle Monash University
Tony Papenfuss Merridee A. Wouters Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute WEHI Application of the Gentrepid candidate gene prediction system to genome wide association studies Solving genomic detective stories using sensitive searches
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Wednesday 4 pm Systems Biology: 9th December The application of genome technology to understanding complex biological systems Thursday 2pm 10th December Genes and Selection
Christine Wells Griffith University
Christine Wells Griffith University
Carolyn deGraaf WEHI
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Waddington canals, stem cells and brain Haematopoietic Expression Atlas disorders Hamish Spencer University of Otago Paul Rainey Massey University Experimental evolution of bet-hedging John McEwan University of Otago TBA from abstracts TBA from abstracts
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Thursday 4pm 10th December
Genetics of Complex Disease
Tony Merriman University of Otago Grant Montgomery QIMR
Grant Montgomery QIMR Genomics and genetic architecture in common complex diseases
Naomi Wray QIMR Prospects for prediction of genetic risk for complex diseases
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