Speaker: Dr. Gabriel da Luz Wallau, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine Moderator: Dr. Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita Abstract: Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are mostly vectored by mosquitoes and transmitted to humans in tropical regions of the globe. However, as extreme climatic events and climate change as a whole continues both vectors and transmitted
Revolutionising Genome Analysis with Machine Learning and Cloud Computing
Date and Time: December 15, 2020, 1 – 2 pm SGT Speaker: Dr. Natalie Twine, Transformational Bioinformatics Group, CSIRO Abstract: Dr. Natalie Twine provides an insider’s view into the development of a Spark-based machine learning framework that is able to find disease genes in the 3 billion letters of the genome. She will also cover
Structural Phylogenetics
Date and Time: December 12, 2020, 11 am – 1 pm SGT Speaker: Dr. Ashar Malik, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore Abstract: The primary step in the process of characterising a novel protein sequence is by comparison with those already characterised. Similarity based functional characterisation and determination of an evolutionary origin can become a non-trivial problem