Recent Talks

2024

Postgraduate Lecture, WEHI, 18 March 2024.
Title: Statistical bioinformatics in the genomic era

12th International Conference of the International Biometric Society's Eastern Mediterranean Region, 11 May 2023. Plenary Speaker.
Title: 20 years of statistical bioinformatics: a brief history of the limma and edgeR packages
Statistical Society of Australia, Victoria Branch, 28 March 2023.
Title: 20 years of statistical bioinformatics: a brief history of the limma and edgeR packages
Lorne Genome, 13 February 2023. Julian Wells Lecture.
Title: Statistical bioinformatics enables medical discoveries

Australian Research Data Commons, Virtual Panel Discussion, 24 February 2022
Title: Improve visibility of research software for career advancement (panelist)

ABACBS National Seminar, 19 October 2021
Title: P-values, false discovery rates and fold-change cutoffs
Genome Organisation Australia, 24 August 2021
Title: Differential analysis of Hi-C data with respect to biological variation
Postgraduate Lecture, WEHI, 16 August 2021
Title: Linear models for gene expression experiments
Bioinformatics Seminar, WEHI, 29 June 2021
Title: P-values, false discovery rates and fold-change cutoffs
Symposium of Bioinformatics in Cancer Research and Therapy, Olivia-Newton John Cancer Research Centre (online via Zoom), 10 June 2021
Title: Single cell transcriptome atlas of the mouse and human mammary glands

ABACBS Conference (Virtual), 24 November 2020
Title: statistical bioinformatics: expression signatures, long-range enhancers and single cell heterogeneity
Why R? Conference, Warsaw (Virtual), 26 September 2020
Panelist, Bioinformatics Discussion Panel
Garvan Institute Postdoc Development Committee Career Forum, Sydney (Virtual), 2 July 2020
Title: An academic career in bioinformatics

Institute Seminar, WEHI, 23 October 2019
Title: Next Generation Sequencing: expression signatures, long-range enhancers and single cell heterogeneity
Bioinformatics Seminar, WEHI, 3 September 2019
Title: XenoSplit: distinguishing human from mouse in RNA-seq from mouse xenograft models
InSPIRE Seminar, WEHI, 9 August 2019
Title: Statistical bioinformatics

BioInfoSummer, University of Western Australia, 6 December 2018
Title: Hi-C explores genome-wide chromatin architecture and identifies long-range enhancers
Bioconductor Asia Meeting, University of Melbourne, 30 November 2018
Title: Differential expression at the transcript level: deflating counts for uncertainty
WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 30 May 2017
Title: Evaluating RNA-seq differential expression at the transcript level: a performance comparison
Lorne Genome, 13 February 2018
Title: Using scRNA-seq to construct developmental lineage relationships in the mouse mammary gland

BioInfoSummer, Monash University, 6 December 2017
Title: Statistical analysis of RNA-seq: reads to genes to pathways
Cutting Edge Science Symposium on Genome Engineering for Cancer Treatment, Canberra, 22 November 2017
Title: Using scRNA-seq to construct developmental lineage relationships in the mouse mammary gland
Australian Cellular Panomics Consortium Meeting: Single Cell Analysis and Cellular Genomics, Melbourne, 9-10 November 2017
Title: Using scRNA-seq to construct developmental lineage relationships in the mouse mammary gland
WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 30 May 2017
Title: Evaluating RNA-seq differential expression at the transcript level
Hunter Meeting, Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley, 3-7 April 2017.
Title: Finding the cell of origin for squamous lung cancer, and other expression signature stories

Australian Statistical Conference, Joe Gani Memorial Session, Canberra, 5 December 2016
Title: Joe Gani at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985-1994
BioInfoSummer, University of Adelaide, 30 November 2016
Title: RNA-seq: reads to genes to pathways
Second Asia-Pacific Bioconductor Meeting, Brisbane, 4 November 2016
Title: 15 years of gene expression analysis: a short history of the limma and edgeR packages
WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 6 September 2016
Title: Heart transplants in children: can we predict rejection from peripheral blood expression?

WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 15 December 2015
Title: Expression signatures, gene set testing and pathway analysis

RNA-seq: reads to genes to pathways, BioInfoSummer, Monash University, 3 December 2014
Vooming along: differential splicing analysis of RNA-seq profiles, WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 5 August 2014
Massively parallel inference for massively parallel data, Australian Statistical Conference, Sydney, 7 July 2014
RNA-seq: from reads to genes to pathways, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, 6 June 2014
RNA-seq: from reads to genes to pathways, Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney, 16 May 2014
The value of p-values, Bioinformatics Focus on Analytic Methods 2014, Melbourne, 28 March 2014

RNA-seq: from reads to genes to pathways, AMATA 2013 Conference, Surfer's Paradise, 13-16 October 2013.
R and Bioconductor: the power of open collaborative projects in statistics and bioinformatics, Victorian Systems Biology Symposium, Melbourne, 20 August 2013
The negative binomial approach to differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data: current state of play, WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 23 July 2013
Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq read counts, Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1 July 2013

Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq read counts, BioInfoSummer, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 3 December 2012
Histone modifications regulate gene expression during lineage commitment of mammary stem cells, Epigenetics 2012—A Focus on Cancer, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, 7 November 2012
Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq read counts, Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2 July 2012
An R-based pipeline for the differential expression analysis of RNA-Seq data, AGRF Next Generation Special Interest Group Meeting, GTAC Melbourne, 6 March 2012
CAMERA: a competitive gene set test adjusting for inter-gene correlation, WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 21 February 2012

Transcript-specific variability in RNA-Seq expression analyses, WEHI Bioinformatics Seminar, 22 November 2011
Gene set testing, stem cells and breast cancer, Statistics Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, 23 August 2011
Analysis of multi-factor RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq experiments with respect to biological variation, Bioconductor Conference, Seattle USA, 28 July 2011.
Transcriptional scores and gene regulation: microarrays, RNA-Seq and ChiP-Seq, WEHI Institute Seminar, 8 June 2011

Gene set tests, stem cells and breast cancer, Australian Statistical Conference, Fremantle, Australia, 6-10 December 2010. Keynote speaker.
Differential gene expression analyses of data from deep-sequencing technologies, 54th Annual Conference of the Australian Mathematical Society, Brisbane, Australia, 30 September 2010.
Detecting relationships between sets of expression profiles across platforms and species, Bioinformatics Division Seminar, WEHI, 3 August 2010.
Detecting transcriptional signatures for cell populations and pathways, Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, 17 June 2010.