Save the dates! CBA workshops and visitors for 2026

The Centre for Biodiversity Analysis is pleased to announce a great lineup of interstate and international visitors coming to Canberra in 2026.

With the support of our EMCR Training Support and Visiting Scientist funding, the CBA community have proposed a diverse range of training, synthesis and networking opportunities.

Detailed information on our invited visitors' activities will be made available on the CBA webpage throughout the year. You are also welcome to get in touch with their hosts if you would like more information or to arrange a time to meet with them during their time in Canberra.

Peter Crisp, The University of Queensland

• Training workshop (July): Unmethylated region (UMR)-sequencing for identifying cis-regulatory regions across populations harboring complex genomes
• Seminar: High-throughput sequencing of unmethylated DNA reveals extensive epigenetic variation in the hypomethylome of diverse plant species
• Hosts: Diep Ganguly, Kai Chan, Maja Adamska (ANU), Robert Allen (CSIRO)

Charitha Pattiaratchi, The University of Western Australia and Lara van Niekerk, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research & Nelson Mandela University

• Australian Marine Science Association conference workshop (August): Improving Indian Ocean Health through Catchment and River Management
• Hosts: Bhavnah Komul Kalidin, Jennie Mallela, Jamie Pittock (ANU)

Jessica Storer and Rachel O’Neill, University of Connecticut

• Training workshop (September): Curating transposable element libraries for non-model organisms and assembling through the hard stuff
• Host Sally Potter (Macquarie University)

Nic Rawlence, University of Otago

• Workshop (November): Historical gene expression and epigenetic analysis of ancient and museum specimens
• Hosts: Erin Hahn, Clare Holleley (CSIRO)

Carlos Melian, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

• Workshop & seminars (October): Multilayers networks in Ecology and Evolution
• Hosts: Francisco Encinas-Viso (CSIRO), Bernd Gruber (UCanberra)

Jack Hollister, Natural History Museum

• Workshop (November): High-Throughput Phenotyping and Strategic Digitisation: Trait Extraction, Interoperability, and Information-Theoretic Prioritisation.
• Seminar: Robotic Digitisation and Machine Learning for High-Throughput Phenotyping of Natural History Collections
• Hosts: Owen Forbes, Andrew Young, Peter Thrall, Corinna Paeper (CSIRO)

Paula Raile Riccardi, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

• Training workshop (November): Large Scale Integrative Taxonomy
• Hosts: Keith Bayless (CSIRO), Megan Head (ANU)

Henry North, University of Cambridge

• Seminar and training workshop (December): Population Genomics for Biodiversity, Biosecurity and Rapid Adaptation
• Hosts: Andreas Bachler, Tom Walsh,  (CSIRO), Peter Solomon (ANU)

Dan Rabosky, University of Michigan

• Training workshop (late 2026/early 2027): Computational macroevolution and phylogenetic comparative methods
• EMCR Theo Murphy Flagship activity: One Million Years of Sand: Climate Cycles and Biotic Evolution in Arid Australia
• Host: Mitzy Pepper (ANU)