Environomics Science Showcase
Canberra, Monday July 29th, 2019
University House – Australian National University
A pdf copy of the full programme can be downloaded here: Environomics 2019 Monday Programme_External
Programme – Monday
12pm – 5pm; Location: Great Hall, ANU University House
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 12-1 pm | Arrival Lunch | Please join us for lunch prior to the commencement of the meeting |
| 1 pm | Welcome address | Dr Linda Broadhurst, Dr Andrew Young, Dr Oliver Berry |
| 1.15 pm | Lightning 1 Novel methods for monitoring of plant-pollinator interactions | Dr Liz Milla |
| 1.20 pm | Lightning 2 Rapid epigenetic age estimation for animals | Dr Benjamin Mayne |
| 1.25 pm | Lightning 3 A paper platform for nucleic acid detection in the field | Dr Andy Bachler |
| 1.30 pm | Q & A | |
| 1.40 pm | Lightning 4 Maximising tropical fish biodiversity detection with eDNA metabarcoding | Dr Cindy Bessey |
| 1.45 pm | Lightning 5 Unravelling diets and food webs: a place for eDNA analysis | Dr Gavin Rees |
| 1.50 pm | Lightning 6 eDNA in the Atlas of Living Australia | Michael Hope |
| 1.55 pm | Q & A | |
| 2.05 pm | Lightning 7 Strategy for Culture of Uncultivated Subsurface Microorganisms | Dr Xiao Deng |
| 2.10 pm | Lightning 8 Improving Seagrass Survival using Microorganisms | Dr Flavia Tarquinio |
| 2.15 pm | Lightning 9 Understanding microbial diversity and function to better support environmental management | Dr Kristen Karsh & Dr Eric Raes |
| 2.20 pm | Q & A | |
| 2.30 pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3:00 pm | Lightning 10 eDNA for temperate fish biodiversity knowledge | Dr Sharon Appleyard |
| 3.05 pm | Lightning 11 Can metabarcoding provide estimates of species’ relative abundance? | Dr Elise Furlan |
| 3.10 pm | Lightning 12 eCells: Developing novel ways to estimate animal abundance | Dr Haylea Miller |
| 3.15 pm | Q & A | |
| 3.25 pm | Lightning 13 Visualising and communicating genome-led biodiversity discovery in Australia | Dr Renee Catullo |
| 3.30 pm | Lightning 14 Mining the uncharacterised reads in eDNA data | Dr Xin-Yi Chua |
| 3.35 pm | Lightning 15 Bioinformatics for Environomics | Dr Annette McGrath |
| 3.40 pm | Q & A | |
| 3.50 pm | Lightning 16 Estimating the thermal limits of plants with help from traits of the transcriptome | Dr Sam Andrew |
| 3.55 pm | Lightning 17 Mapping pollination networks: the use of genomics in the study of plant-pollinator interactions | Dr Francisco Encinas-Viso |
| 4:00 pm | Lightning 18 Mobile species identification | Dr Luana S.F. Lins |
| 4.05 pm | Q & A | |
| 4:15 pm | Lightning 19 Mobilising collections through genomics | Dr Andreas Zwick |
| 4:20 pm | Lightning 20 Genetic drift in living collections | Dr Anusuya Willis |
| 4:25 pm | Q & A | |
| 4:35 pm | Lightning 21 The CSIRO Fish Collection and degraded DNA | Dr Sharon Appleyard |
| 4:40 pm | Lightning 22 Museum epigenomics: can natural history collections reveal temporal changes gene expression? | Dr Clare Holleley |
| 4:45 pm | Q & A | |
| 4:55 pm | Networking drinks and nibbles in the Foyer | |
| 6.00 pm | Plenary by Professor Matt Trau (University of Queensland) | |
| 6:45 pm | Find a seat for dinner | |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner service | |