Dear All,
Thank you to everyone who attended the eDNA Analysis community meeting in early June, which featured an interesting presentation by Dr. Joshua Koh on "
Multimodal machine learning with eDNA for ecosystem biomonitoring." You can access the recording and meeting materials
here.
Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 9th, at 1:00 pm AEST. Dr. Jenny Giles (CSIRO) will join us to present on the National Biodiversity DNA Library.
Additionally, please see the details below for an upcoming Metagenomics Workshop that may be of interest:
Metagenomic Analysis Workshop – 2026 Brisbane
This three-day workshop introduces best practices and practical workflows for working with publicly available microbiome datasets, focusing on reproducible, FAIR data-driven research.
- Part 1 (Hybrid): Tuesday, 25 August, 11:00–17:00 AEST (Online or in-person at Brisbane/St Lucia)
- Part 2 (In-person only): Wednesday, 26 August – Thursday, 27 August, 9:00–17:00 AEST (University of Queensland, St Lucia)
Registration:
The workshop is free to attend, but in-person capacity is limited to 20 participants. Attendees are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. For more information and to register, please visit the Australian Microbiome Events Page (
https://www.australianmicrobiome.com/events/metagenomic-analysis-workshop-2026-brisbane/) or contact
ausmic...@bioplatforms.com.
Please get in touch if you have any ideas or topics to share for future meetings.
Best regards,
Tiff
-- Tiff Nelson, PhD (she/her)
Genomics Research Community Engagement Lead
Australian BioCommons
The University of Melbourne
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