Hi all – I’m sure many of you have seen this but the Winter School is a great bioinformatics training event held annually in Australia. Details below.

 

 

**2019 Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology **

 

A premier bioinformatics training event in Australia, the sixteenth annual Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology will be held 1-5 July 2019 at the Institute for Molecular Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia. Early bird registration for Winter School now open.

 

http://bioinformatics.org.au/winterschool/

 

Note that last year we reached the capacity of 280 of our venue, so be sure to register early to ensure your place.

 

Key Dates

Online registration

- Early bird – from now to Sunday 10 June 2019

- Normal – 11 June to 24 June 2019

Student travel scholarships

- Applications open NOW

- Applications close on 31 May 2019

 

The series of winter schools is designed to introduce bioinformatics, mathematical and computational biology to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and others working in the fields of biology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, complex systems analysis, and chemical and medical sciences and engineering.

 

Themes

* Next generation sequencing & bioinformatics

* Long read bioinformatics and applications

* Data science and machine learning for bioinformatics

* Getting started with bioinformatics software

 

Featured speakers

--  Nicholas Loman, University of Birmingham, UK

--  Nicola Armstrong, Murdoch University

--  Joshua Ho, The University of Hong Kong

--  Nicole Cloonan, University of Auckland

--  Jue Ruan, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

--  Jessica Mar, The University of Queensland

--  Martin Smith, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

--  Maren Westermann, Max Kelsen

--  Denis Bauer, CSIRO

 

Speakers at Winter School are chosen as great presenters and world leaders in their field. For the complete list of speakers and presentation titles, visit website

 

http://bioinformatics.org.au/winterschool/

 

Workshop

A Genomics Virtual Laboratory training workshop (limited places of 36 only) will be run during the Winter School on Wednesday 3rd July. The workshop was fully subscribed in days last year, so register early to avoid disappointment.

 

Feedback from previous Winter Schools

“I would strongly encourage all biologists even without any mathematical background to attend the Winter School.”

“Fantastic speakers.” “Great networking opportunities.”

“It takes special talent to pull off a conference people actually enjoy attending and it was thanks to some of the more charismatic orators, that I was able to enjoy the Winter School so much.”

“Gave me the confidence I need to talk to other people and bioinformaticians about the analysis of my NGS data. Thanks."