Program
Day 1 Tuesday 10 November
Current capacity, shared interests and research opportunities
| TIME | SESSION AND DETAILS |
|---|---|
| 9:00–9:30 | Arrival, registration and coffee |
| 9:30–9:50 | Welcome and scene setting Clare Holleley· Group Leader of Vertebrate Collections, CSIRO |
| 9:50–10:00 | NRCA Director Address Anthony Whalen · Director of the National Research Collections Australia |
| 10:00–11:00 | Keynote Presentation Back to the future in ecosystem reconstruction: from ancient mitogenomes to functional genomics |
| 11:00–11:30 | Morning Tea |
| 11:30–12:15 | Research Session 1: Old specimens, new tricks |
| 11:30–11:45 | Erin Hahn – Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Unlocking the temporal multi-omics potential of formalin-fixed museum specimens |
| 11:45–12:00 | Livia Gerber – Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO What to learn from your dragon: a tale on life history and history |
| 12:00–12:15 | Carl Vangestel – Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences From museum collections to epigenomes: investigating shell morphological variation in Tectarius striatus |
| 12:15–1:00 | Research Session 2: Research snapshots |
| 12:15–12:25 | Martha Sears & Sarah Steatfeild – The National Museum of Australia |
| 12:25–12:35 | Alicia Grealy – Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO |
| 12:35–12:40 | Ina Smith – Biosecurity, CSIRO |
| 12:40–12:45 | Ko-Huan Lee – Biosecurity, CSIRO |
| 12:45–12:50 | Carol Hartley – Agriculture & Food, CSIRO |
| 12:50–1:00 | Workshop Dinner Sponsor Presentation Lachlan Morrison – Biomolecular Resource Facility, Australian National University |
| 1:00–2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00–2:20 | Discussion Session 1: Who's in the room? |
| 2:20–3:20 | Breakout Session 1: Exploring common interests |
| 3:20–4:00 | Afternoon tea |
| 4:00–4:45 | Discussion Session 2: Finding common ground |
| 4:45–5:00 | Day 1 wrap-up |
| From 6:00 | Workshop dinner Fellows Bar & Cafe, University House, ANU – kindly supported by ANU's Biomolecular Resource Facility. |
Day 2 Wednesday 11 November
Developing priorities and building the consortium
| TIME | SESSION AND DETAILS |
|---|---|
| 9:00–9:15 | Day 2 welcome |
| 9:15–10:15 | Keynote Presentation Emilio Marmol-Sanchez - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen From DNA to RNA and beyond: Towards a multi-omics approach applied to quaternary and historical museum collections. |
| 10:15–11:00 | Research Session 3: Research snapshots |
| 10:15–10:30 | Pranav Adithya Senthilkumar – TIGRR Lab, University of Melbourne |
| 10:30–10:35 | Anna Kearns – Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO |
| 10:35–10:45 | Covaris-sponsored ECR Travel Bursary Awardee Imogen Dumville – University of the Sunshine Coast Influence of faecal microbiome on chlamydial disease in the koala |
| 10:45–10:50 | Andrea Cabrito Rubau – Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC Pre-recorded talk |
| 10:55–11:00 | Emma Harding – University of Oxford Pre-recorded talk |
| 11:00–11:30 | Morning Tea |
| 11:30–12:45 | Breakout Session 2: Developing priority areas |
| 12:45–1:45 | Lunch |
| 1:45–2:30 | Discussion Session 3: From ideas to opportunities |
| 2:30–3:00 | Discussion Session 4: Who is missing? |
| 3:00–3:30 | Afternoon tea |
| 3:30–4:15 | Discussion Session 5: Consortium structure and next steps |
| 4:15–4:30 | Closing discussion |
Optional collections tour Thursday 12 November
Tour of the new Diversity Building of the National Research Collection, followed by morning tea.
| TIME | SESSION AND DETAILS |
|---|---|
| 9:30–11:00 | Diversity Building tour of the National Research Collections Please meet in the Diversity Foyer |
| 11:00–11:30 | Morning Tea |