First announcement: Microbiomes in Tasmania workshop: questions, collaboration and connection with industry
Dates: Monday-Wednesday 29th-31st October
Schedule: Mon-Tues is a mini-conference, Wed is a paper writing workshop, both days are approx. 9am-5pm
Venue: TBC
Cost: Free
In Tasmania, microbial community analyses are being conducted through different organizations (e.g. UTas, CSIRO, AAD, TIA, private industry) and for different objectives, including understanding human, soil and agricultural health, food safety, biodiversity, evolution and biogeochemistry. However, to date there has been very little formal collaboration amongst these groups to facilitate discussion of research questions, techniques, and facilities to streamline research efforts and stimulate cross-disciplinary research, grants and publications.
To initiate collaboration amongst these groups, we are holding a three-day event (Mon 29 Oct – Wed 31 Oct); two days of presentations on health and ecological microbiome research and applications, with a third day to outline a working paper for publication. We are inviting presentations from each major “microbiome” research group in Tasmania, as well as leading microbiome researchers from elsewhere in Australia. We have identified you as one of the prominent “microbiome” researchers in Tasmania and it would be fantastic if you could attend.
The outcomes of the workshop will be to build a network and shared understanding of the microbiomes research being done in Tasmania. Fostering this collaboration could lead to more rapid advances and efficient research.
Please let us know by Friday, Aug 31 if 1) whether you (or your students) are interested in attending the mini-conference on Oct 29 or 30 2) whether you (or your students) are interested in presenting at the mini-conference on Oct 29 or 30 (and the general topic of presentation), and 3) whether you (or your students) are interested in being involved with writing up a paper on this subject (must attend workshop on Oct 31). Feel free to forward this announcement to others, who we may have missed.
This free event has been sponsored by the College of Science and Engineering and will be catered with lunch and morning and afternoon tea.
Regards,
Drs Emily J Flies, Laurence Clarke and Dave Kendal
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Dear all,
If you’ve forgotten to register for the Galaxy workshops please get in and do so! They’re advertised here: http://www.embl-abr.org.au/about/events/
I look forward to seeing you there.
The first one (August 22nd – next week!) is on Genome Assembly, using Galaxy Australia.
Best wishes
Mike
(also: note that Phylomania is waiting for you... see below...)
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Michael Charleston
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School of Natural Sciences
University of Tasmania
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Job opportunity at CSIRO!
From: Sophie Mazard <smazard(a)bioplatforms.com>
Date: Tuesday, 7 August 2018 at 11:08 am
To: Sophie Mazard <smazard(a)bioplatforms.com>
Subject: CSIRO: Research Projects Officer - Bioinformatics, Australian Microbiome
Dear all,
As part of their commitments to the Australian Microbiome initiative, CSIRO is looking to appoint a Research Projects Officer who will provide bioinformatics, organisational and database integration support for the Australian Microbiome Initiative.
For further information on the position advertised see:
https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Hobart%2C-TAS-Bioinformatician/494781800/<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/O_EDC4QZgDU6QzAJCWUb_x?domain=jobs.csiro.…>
Could you please share this advertised position with anyone who may be interested.
Andrew Bissett is happy to be contacted for questions regarding the position.
Thank you in advance for your help
Best wishes
Sophie
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