Menzies Health Institute Queensland Data Sciences Seminar, Title - Bioinformatics: Challenges and Opportunities, Guest Speakers: Dr Dominique Gorse Dr Gareth Price Dr Xin-Yi Chua

Menzies Health Institute Queensland Data Sciences Seminar, Title - Bioinformatics: Challenges and Opportunities, Guest Speakers: Dr Dominique Gorse  Dr Gareth Price  Dr Xin-Yi Chua

Principal speaker

Dr Dominique Gorse

Other speakers

Dr Gareth Price Dr Xin-Yi Chua


DATA SCIENCE SEMINAR

ABSTRACT

Advances in high-throughput ‘omics and phenotyping platforms are enabling innovative approaches to address complex biological questions. However, the volume and variety of data generated bring a vast range of challenges such as collecting, storing, managing, processing, integrating, visualising, sharing or retrieving information. This seminar will provide an overview of the international, national and regional contexts and present resources available to Life science and Health researchers in Queensland.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Dominique Gorse (Director, QFAB Bioinformatics) is a data scientist with more than twenty years of experience across life science, drug discovery and health. For the past ten years with QFAB Bioinformatics, Dominique has provided the technical, operational and management leadership to create core competencies and provide services in data science.

Dominique spent six years with Bio-Layer, the biotech business now known as Anteo Diagnostics. He has designed and built a screening platform to develop new diagnostics products. Integral to this platform was a full hardware and software system for the collection, management, search and tracking of high-throughput experimental data. He has also worked with Synt:em, a French biopharma company, where he led a team of bioinformaticians and statisticians to develop new algorithms that enabled fast and novel analysis of high dimensional datasets. Dominique holds a PhD in computational science from the University of Bordeaux-France (1993) and an MBA from UQ (2012).

Dr Xin-Yi Chua (Head of Informatics, QFAB Bioinformatics) received her doctorate from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for her work in applying machine learning approaches to enhance performance in inferring transcriptional regulatory interactions in bacteria using the comparative genomics approach. From this work Xin-Yi has also developed a keen interest in visual analytics; investigating methods to capture information from large scale genomic data to facilitate intuitive and rapid comprehension. Xin-Yi is motivated by the need to reduce the now apparent gap between data generation and data analysis - the ability to automate repeatable discovery processes and quickly highlight regions of interest for further verification will increase how researchers can maximize their efforts.

Dr Gareth Price (Head of Computational Biology, QFAB Bioinformatics) has been a Genomics Scientist for over 15 years now. He has involved in experimental design, assay performance, data QC, data analysis and data interpretation from early printed microarrays, to cartridge based GeneChips through to multiple Next Gen platforms. These works have involved a variety of model organisms from microorganisms, fruit flies, mice to humans. Gareth's view is that research, clinical research, and healthcare are at their best when coupled with the most accurate, highest throughput and innovative technology and analysis. He uses this view to motivate the use of innovation to reduce the time between data generation and data summarisation, ready for the important phase of data interpretation and result in discovery.

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