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A premier annual bioinformatics training event in Australia for 13 years, the Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology will be held 4 to 8 July 2016 at the Institute for Molecular Science, The University of Queensland, St Lucia. 
 
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
• Bioinformatics methods, models and applications to disease
• Advanced bio-data visualisation
• Ecogenomics

 
FEATURED SPEAKERS

• Professor Burkhard Rost, Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany
• Professor Ed DeLong, University of Hawaii, USA
• Professor Howard Ochman, University of Texas, USA
• Dr Seán O'Donoghue, CSIRO
• Dr Kate Patterson, Garvin Institute of Medical Research
• Dr Mathieu Bourgey, Research and Development Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics (C3G), Canada

Speakers at Winter School are chosen as great presenters and world leaders in their field. See website for the complete list of speakers and presentation titles.
 
WORKSHOP & BOOTCAMP
A Genomics Virtual Laboratory training workshop (limited places) will be run during the Winter School on Wednesday 6th July. A Software Carpentry Bootcamp (11-12 July) is also being run in conjunction with the Winter School.