The international genetics and genomics community comes to Melbourne

Members of the Australian BioCommons team are attending the 23rd International Congress of Genetics (ICG) from 16-21 July in Melbourne. Meet us at booth 27 to find out about our activities in building bioinformatics infrastructure to support human health, agricultural and environmental science research, and discuss the challenges researchers face. We’ll showcase the services that the BioCommons and our partners offer and we would love to hear your feedback!

As well as visiting our booth, keep an eye out for the BioCommons team in the symposia, and the poster and speciality sessions:

• Associate Director - Human Genome Informatics, Bernie Pope: Ultra-sensitive detection of circulating tumour DNA enriches for patients with higher risk disease in clinically localised prostate cancer (talk on 20 July, 11 am)

• Human Genomics Data Specialist, Marion Shadbolt (poster): Advancing human genomics data sharing in Australia: Highlights from the Australian BioCommons

• Community Engagement Officer, Tiff Nelson (poster): Robust public computational services supporting Genome Assembly and Annotation for Australian researchers

• Bernie Pope (poster): Somatic mutation landscape in a cohort of meningiomas that have undergone grade progression

• Deputy Director, Jeff Christiansen will give an overview of BioCommons services supporting genomics research at approximately 1 pm during the Genetics Society of AustralAsia (GSA) annual general meeting on 19 July

While at the congress, you can also visit our partners the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), who are providing an early look at the new Australian Reference Genome Atlas interface, plus other Bioplatforms Australia supported facilities including the Australian Genome Research Facility, Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics and the Australian National University Biomolecular Research Facility. 

Registration is still open, so come along and chat with the BioCommons team. We can’t wait to see you there!