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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · 1h

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Jeanette Johnson from
University of Maryland! 🌟

🧬 Using genomics-informed agent-based models to understand neoplastic phenotype transitions in the human PDAC microenvironment

⏱️ 13 October, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · 15d

Join us next Monday for a talk by Daniel León-Periñán and Dr Elena Splendiani! 🌟

🔬 Open-ST: High-resolution spatial transcriptomics in 2D and 3D

⏱️ 29 September, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · 22d

Join us next Monday for a talk by dcjones.bsky.social from
@fredhutch.org! 🌟

🔬 Cell Simulation as Cell Segmentation

⏱️ 22 September, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 Early Bird registration for ADSN Conference 2025 has been extended by two weeks!

Secure your spot at the reduced rate and hear from our incredible keynote speakers:
🎤 Prof Bin Yu
🎤 Prof Karin Verspoor
🎤 A/Prof Yuan-Fang Li

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46nr5o6

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · 29d

Join us next Monday for a talk by feargalr.bsky.social from
Flinders University! 🌟

🔬 Bifidobacteria support optimal infant vaccine responses

⏱️ 15 September, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Haotian Cui from
University of Toronto! 🌟

📊 Large Models for Single-Cell Omics and Drug Discovery: Data, Pretraining, and Closed-Loop Environment

⏱️ 8 September, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Aug 26

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Yue You from
Guangzhou National Laboratory! 🌟

📊 A Systematic Comparison of Single-Cell Perturbation Response Prediction Models

⏱️ 1 September, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨Next Monday, we are delighted to have Prof Christine Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social from University of Melbourne
as our Judith and David Coffey speaker!

🧬 The secret sauce – building insights from integrated atlas of human biology

⏱️25 August, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Aug 13

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Yimin Zheng from
CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine! 🌟

🔬The lazy way of pathological images analysis in the era of large models

⏱️ 18 August, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Aug 5

Join us next Monday for a talk by @anglixue.bsky.social from
@garvaninstitute.bsky.social! 🌟

🧬 TenK10K multiome initiative: Genetic regulation of cell-type–specific chromatin accessibility shapes immune function and disease risk

⏱️ 11 August, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Jul 30

✨Our Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar is back for Semester 2!

Join us next Monday as we kick off the series with Dr Rongxin Fang from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social!

🔬Spatial and Functional Analysis of the Mammalian Brain

⏱️4 August, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Jun 20

🎉 A huge thank you to all the incredible speakers who shared their research in our Semester 1 Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Series! 🧬📊

The series will be back on August 4. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 28

✨Next Monday, join us for our final seminar this semester with Andy Tran from our centre!

🔬From benchtop to bedside: advancing multi-omics statistical methods for precision medicine

⏱️2 June, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 21

✨Next Monday, we are thrilled to have Prof Marc Wilkins from @unswbabs.bsky.social as our Judith and David Coffey speaker!

🧬 Systems or sub-systems biology? Which can best help us understand the cell?

⏱️26 May, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 14

✨Next Monday, we are excited to have Prob Shoba Ranganathan @Macquarie_Uni as our Judith and David Coffey speaker!

📊 The 7TM family: are template-based models better than AlphaFold models?

⏱️19 May, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 9

📢 Announcing ADSN 2025!

The Australian Data Science Network Conference will be hosted by the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre and held at the University of Sydney from 10 - 12 November 2025.

👉 Registration and call for abstracts now open.
🔗 spds.sydney.edu.au/adsn2025/
#DataScience #ADSN

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 7

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Vipul Singhal from
Integrated Biosciences Inc! 🌟

🧬 BANKSY unifies cell typing and tissue domain segmentation for scalable spatial omics data analysis

⏱️ 12 May, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 5

📢 Job Alert!

We are recruiting 2 x Research Fellows to work in the new Snow Vision Accelerator which integrates cutting-edge biology, data science, and drug discovery and translational strategies to fight glaucoma.

📆 Applications close 8 June
🔗 bit.ly/44RG0HR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Apr 30

Join us next Monday for a talk by Mark Keller from
@harvardmed.bsky.social! 🌟

📊The Vitessce framework for interactive visualization of single-cell data and its applications

⏱️ 5 May, 1 pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Apr 28

Join us online at 1 pm today for our statistical bioinformatics seminar: Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits

spds.sydney.edu.au/event/spatia...

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Apr 11

Join us on Monday for a our Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar
📊RNA polymerase II at histone genes predicts outcome in human cancer
📣 Dr Ye Zheng
⏱️14 April, 1pm (AEST)
🔗https://spds.sydney.edu.au/event/rna-polymerase-ii-at-histone-genes-predicts-outcome-in-human-cancer/

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join us on Monday for a talk by @boxiangliu.bsky.social

📊Toward a cell-type-specific understanding of complex diseases

⏱️7 April, 1pm (AEST)
🔗https://spds.sydney.edu.au/event/toward-a-cell-type-specific-understanding-of-complex-diseases/

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Mar 18

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Guillaume Jaume from @harvardmed.bsky.social! 🌟

📊Towards Generalist AI Models in Pathology: The Unique Role of Molecular Data

⏱️24 March, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Mar 12

Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Gladys Poon from HKU! 🌟

🧬 Multi-state evolutionary model quantifies tumour cellular plasticity

⏱️ 17 March, 1pm (AEST)
🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Mar 4

Join us next Monday for a talk by @mingy16.bsky.social from
HKUST! 🌟

🧬Explaining the asynchrony of aging through cell population dynamics

⏱️10 March, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR