Upcoming bioinformatics training

[Melissa Burke]

Hello everyone,

I hope you're all well. 

It's an exciting time of the year and there are quite a few training events coming up soon on workflows and containers, single cell RNAseq, GenAI for life sciences and Galaxy for bioinformatics. These are open to all Australian researchers from academica, government and industry.

Take a look at the details below and feel free to share these with colleagues.

Thanks very much,

Melissa

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Australian BioCommons Workshop: Single cell RNAseq analysis in R

Learn about performing end-to-end scRNAseq analysis using Seurat, Harmony, and SingleR. This hands-on session covers everything from QC and normalisation to clustering and identification of cluster markers.

 

When: 28-29 July 2026 

Free and open to anyone associated with an Australian organisation

More details and registrations: https://www.biocommons.org.au/events/scrnaseq-2026 

You can also share the event on LinkedIn!

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Australian BioCommons Workshop: Generative AI Essentials for Life Sciences

Join Dr Angus Fisk (University of Sydney) and Dr Minh Huynh (Australian BioCommons & Sydney Informatics Hub) will join us to discuss how to use AI tools responsibly and effectively in your research. You'll learn how to choose the right models and write high-impact prompts. 

When: 1 July 2026, 1 - 3 pm AEST

Free and open to anyone associated with an Australian organisation.

Applications close: 17 June 2026 

More details and applications: https://www.biocommons.org.au/events/gen-ai-2026

You can also share the event on LinkedIn!

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Australian BioCommons Webinar: Using Containers in Nextflow

Join this BioCommons webinar to learn how containers package software dependencies into portable environments and how Nextflow integrates these technologies to ensure your pipelines run consistently across different platforms.

When: 17 June 2026, 1 - 2 pm AEST

Free and open to anyone associated with an Australian organisation.

More details and registrations: https://www.biocommons.org.au/events/containers-2026 

You can also share the event on LinkedIn!

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QCIF Workshop: Introduction to Galaxy

A guided introduction to the Galaxy Australia platform, including how to navigate the interface, manage data, run tools, create workflows, and access training resources. Perfect for biologists, other life scientists, and computer scientists planning to work with Galaxy

2 July 2026

Free and open to anyone associated with an Australian organisation.

More details and registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/introduction-to-ngs-and-bioinformatics-analysis-july-2026

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QCIF Workshop: Introduction to NGS and bioinformatics analysis

Learn about next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and the fundamental bioinformatics analysis involved in modern sequencing analysis. Practical exercises focus on a typical bioinformatics workflow for NGS data, including hands-on exercises in quality control and read mapping. 

15 - 16 July 2026

Free and open to anyone associated with an Australian organisation.

More details and registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/introduction-to-ngs-and-bioinformatics-analysis-july-2026

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Melissa Burke, PhD (she/her)

Training Manager

Australian BioCommons

The University of Queensland

M: +61 (0)460 641 328

W: biocommons.org.au

My position is funded by Bioplatforms Australia and hosted at The University of Queensland

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which I work and pay my respects to their Elders, both past and present.

I work flexibly so this email may arrive out of hours - please respond at a time that suits you.