Events

Group Meetings

PBRC group meetings are held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in room OC1-72.

Date	Title	Speaker
30 March 2009	RNA space—the final frontier or: Exploring biological dark matter	Ute Baumann
20 April 2009	Towards a full genome sequence of wheat and barley	Lam Huynh
4 May 2009	Phosphoranes as intermediates in the hydride reduction of quaternary phosphonium salts	Neil Donoghue
18 May 2009	Exploring microRNA and mRNA interactions and their roles in human diseases	Jiuyong Li
25 May 2009	Compatible and incompatible pollen interactions: Modelling of growth in tubular cells	Otto Schmidt
15 June 2009	Chem-informatics & bio-informatics: Computational & statistical drug design	Irene Hudson
29 June 2009	Structural biology in the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics	Maria Hrmova
24 August 2009	Nonsmooth optimization approach for clustering	Asef Ganhejlou
26 October 2009	Modelling leaf development in response to environment	Boris Parent
23 November 2009	TBA	Mahmood Golzarian
7 December 2009	Gene Mapping in Wheat and Barley: A Project Update	Lam Huynh

ACPFG bioinformatics meetings are journal club meetings held on Fridays at 10 a.m. in the ACPFG boardroom.

Date	Topic	Leader
27 March 2009	Biological networks	Andreas Schreiber
3 April 2009	Biological networks Location: Seminar room	Andreas Schreiber
17 April 2009	Translation engineering	Kuhn Ip
1 May 2009	Plant phenomics	Desmond Lun
8 May 2009	Programming databases Location: Seminar room	Elena Kalashyan
22 May 2009	QTL mapping	Lam Huynh
5 June 2009	Analysis of genomic rearrangements	Andreas Schreiber
19 June 2009	Computational marker discovery and visualisation in cereals	Chris Duran
	Short read assembly for dummies	Michael Imelfort
14 August 2009	Plant modelling Location: AGRF meeting room	Desmond Lun
28 August 2009	ISMB	Ute Baumann
11 September 2009	ISMB	Ute Baumann

Location: Lecture Room 5, Charles Hawker Conference Centre, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus (map ref. D2).

Time	Event	Speaker
9:50 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Welcome	Desmond Lun UniSA / ACPFG
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	Bioinformatics and abiotic stress tolerance [slides (password-protected zip 3.35 MB)]	Peter Langridge ACPFG
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	Metabolomics—a tool to measure the metabolic phenotype of a biological system [slides (password-protected zip 11.5 MB)]	Ute Roessner ACPFG
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Anomaly detection in high-dimensional data sets [slides (password-protected zip 994 KB)]	Belinda Chiera UniSA
12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m.	Modelling the evolution of gene duplications [slides (password-protected zip 4.30 MB)]	Andreas Schreiber ACPFG
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.	The Plant Accelerator [slides (password-protected zip 7.24 MB)]	Mark Tester ACPFG
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.	Analysis of transgenic plants [slides (password-protected zip 4.56 MB)]	Nataliya Kovalchuk ACPFG
2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.	Bioinformatics and hidden Markov models—an introduction [slides (password-protected zip 70.2 KB)]	John van der Hoek UniSA
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.	Research in chem-, wood- & bio-informatics; genomics & environ- & psycho-metrics [slides (password-protected zip 8.54 MB)]	Irene Hudson and Chris Brien UniSA
4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.	Innovative methods for time series modelling of climate variables [slides (password-protected zip 4.06 MB)]	John Boland UniSA

Location: Lecture Room 4, Charles Hawker Conference Centre, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus (map ref. D2).

Time	Event	Speaker
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.	Phenomics and computational biology in the mechanisms and regulation of plant cell wall biology [slides (password-protected zip 16.8 MB)]	Geoff Fincher ACPFG
9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m.	Between greenhouse and computer—small scale phenomics using the LemnaTec Scanalyzer [slides (password-protected zip 8.33 MB)]	Bettina Berger and Karthika Rajendran ACPFG
10:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m.	The biosynthesis and role of cellulose in plant tissues [slides (password-protected zip 5.03 MB)]	Rachel Burton ACPFG
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.	Bioinformatics at UQ [slides (password-protected zip 1.61 MB)]	Dave Edwards ACPFG
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Theoretical modelling and simulation of colloidal and biological systems [slides (password-protected zip 1.33 MB)]	Stan Miklavcic UniSA
12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m.	TBA	Ute Baumann ACPFG
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.	ACPFG proteomics capability: analytical & bioinformatic [slides (password-protected zip 13.5 MB)]	Andrew Cassin ACPFG
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.	Design and analysis of experiments [slides (password-protected zip 2.22 MB)]	Chris Brien UniSA
2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.	Making fuel- and drug-producing microbes through analysis, modelling, and design [slides (password-protected zip 4.41 MB)]	Desmond Lun UniSA / ACPFG