If you’re attending workshops today and tomorrow, enjoy, and we hope everyone had a really positive experience at this year’s events!

A massive thank you to all those involved in organising and running the events, especially George and Muneeza, the COMBINE Symposium co-convenors. Many, many people have volunteered to help in some capacity both during and in the lead up to the event - we owe its success to you all.

That’s a wrap on the COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference for 2025! What a spectacular few days of enlightening talks, eye-catching posters, tasty food, exciting collaborations, hard-earned social events, and, importantly, brilliant bioinformatics!

Congratulations to all of our award winners and thank you to all of you for making this a memorable COMBINE Symposium! We hope you enjoyed the variety of talks, posters, and other events!

The SBEI x COMBINE Career meet-up was a success, facilitating discussion between professional bioinformaticians and students about non-academic career options for bioinformaticians. Thanks to the SBEI volunteers that willingly gave their time for this event!

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Thanks to Eugenie Lee, Liyang Fei, and Jia Wei Tan for their talks on cell annotation, tracking drug resistant clones in ovarian cancer organoids, and identifying aberrant transcripts in long read RNA seq.

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A fun icebreaker question to start the panel: Would you rather work with no-comment code or without version control?

Our panellists refuse to live without version control!

What's your take?

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What a brilliant round of lightning talks - we heard about spatial transcriptomics, methylation, and drug resistance, among a variety of other topics. The presenters did a fantastic job using all 90 available seconds to pitch their projects - make it worth their while by checking out their posters!

Enlightening session by Prof. Karin.
Career paths are not always straight
Embrace collaboration and grow with the technology
As bioinformaticians, we should continue to share how our roles and expertise contribute to different industries.

Next up: Lightening ⚡ talks!!!

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Session 1 was a fantastic display of the AI/ML research being conducted throughout Australia. Thanks to Claire Cheng, Daksh Pratap Singh Pamar, Diya Prabhuram, Halimat Chisholm Atanda, and Xiaochen Zhang for their brilliant talks!

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Halfway through the AI/ML session. We've heard about using transformer models, augmentation techniques, and structural modelling to drive real-world biological wins in terms of human-mouse modelling, transcriptomic data imbalance, and variant effect prediction.

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⏳ Less than am hour to go until the 2025 COMBINE Symposium kicks off! Here’s how to find us at the conference venue, Adelaide Oval.

Enter via the South Gate and the registration desk will be in front of you. Head up the escalators and get settled for the Symposium opening at 9am!

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Sign up for the SBEI x COMBINE Career Meet-Up.

We’ve got a fantastic lineup of professional bioinformaticians who have volunteered to discuss career trajectories, roles for bioinformaticians, etc.

🗓️: 24 November, Symposium lunch break
📍:MG Suite One, Adelaide Oval, SA
🔗: forms.gle/Qq3c7xRP7eoq...

🔥Late breaking abstract submissions for poster presentations at the COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference are now open!

Please note that this call is for posters only!

⏳Deadline: 31 October 2025
🔗Submit your abstract here, please use the provided template: forms.gle/TnEWMMcPz5m9...