HIV&AIDS Theme A Bioinformatics Workshop
| Wednesday, November 8, 2017 |
| 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
| Murray Room |
Details
Topics covered will include:
Overview of sequencing approaches to HIV.
- Conventional sequencing
- High throughput sequencing
HIV transmission and diversity
- Estimating diversity from samples.
Monitoring HIV latency.
- Analysing HIV integration sites.
- Analysing genome integrity and diversity during HIV treatment.
Workshop objectives include:
- To understand the benefits and pitfalls of different sequencing and analysis approaches in HIV.
- Understand how sequencing can be used to monitor HIV transmission and latency.
Speaker
Dr Matthew Parsons
Postdoc
University Of Melbourne
Modelling as a tool for understanding patterns of broadly neutralising antibody protection from cell-associated SHIV
12:30 AM - 12:50 PMBiography
Prof Miles Davenport
Head, Infection Analytics Program
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Workshop Facilitator
11:30 AM - 1:00 PMBiography
Dr Vanessa Venturi
Associate Professor
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Dr Jori Symons
Postdoc
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Bioinformatics in HIV integration site analysis
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMBiography
Jori Symons is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Professor Sharon Lewin’s and Associate Professor Paul Cameron’s laboratory at the Doherty Institute in Melbourne. Jori obtained his PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2014. Jori joined the Lewin/Cameron laboratory to investigate the HIV reservoir by studying HIV integration sites
Dr John-Sebastian Eden
NHMRC Early Career Fellow
University Of Sydney
Exploring the HIV reservoir with full-length provirus sequencing
12:10 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
J-S Eden is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow at the University of Sydney and Westmead Institute for Medical Research. His research utilizes high-throughput sequencing and comparative genomics to understand patterns of genetic variation, evolution and molecular epidemiology of clinically important viruses as well as novel infections.
