Fwd: MIG Seminar - Friday September 13, 12pm: Dr. Quan Nguyen
Tiffanie Nelson
Our next seminar will take place on Friday 13 September – please join us!
Dr. Quan Nguyen will speak about promising avenues for developing integrative analytical strategies to unlock the full potential of spatial omics. Let me know if you are interested in meeting him that day. You will also find information below about our upcoming seminars.
Dr. Quan Nguyen
The University of Queensland
Host: Dr. Heejung Shim
Date: Friday 13 September
Time: 12 - 1pm AEST
Venue: Ian Potter Auditorium (G52), Kenneth Myer Building (144)
Zoom: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/81950183412?pwd=U0U5SFBBd2lJLzNlQktHQTJJM2RYQT09 Password: 678685
A light lunch will follow 1 – 2pm outside the auditorium.
Title: Unlocking the Full Potential of Spatial Omics: Moving Beyond Individual Information Layers to Integrated Analyses
Spatial omics data stands out as an exceptionally information-rich resource, offering a multi-layered view of biological systems. The technology captures a wealth of biological information from the molecular scale of genes, proteins, and metabolites, through the diversity of cell types and cell states, to the complex cellular interactions within tissue microenvironments. This allows us to investigate both intrinsic cellular processes and extrinsic influences from surrounding cells, potentially revealing new classes of biomarkers and targets for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. However, current analytical approaches often fall short of utilising the full potential of this data. Many methods focus on individual layers of information, neglecting the rich interplay between molecular, cellular, and microenvironmental features within each sample, and even more so across multiple samples. This talk will discuss promising avenues for developing integrative analytical strategies that leverage the full complexity of spatial data, ultimately unlocking its power for discovering key biomarkers and advancing our understanding of tissue biology in health and disease.
Dr Quan Nguyen is the head of the Genomics and Machine Learning Lab at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and The University of Queensland. He is the director of the QIMRB National Centre for Spatial Tissue and AI Research. He completed a PhD in Bioengineering at UQ in 2013, a postdoc in bioinformatics at RIKEN in Japan in 2015, a CSIRO OCE fellowship in 2016, an ARC DECRA fellowship in 2021, and a NHMRC Emerging Leadership (EL2) fellowship. His lab develops machine learning analysis of single-cell and spatial multiomics data to study disease progression, drug targets and drug response. His machine-learning and technological approaches aim to contribute to the broad applications of molecular and cellular data to benefit more patients.
Coming up next (see also https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/integrative-genomics/MIG-home#news-events-and-seminars)
Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Host |
18 Oct |
Jean Yang |
The University of Sydney |
Stephen Leslie |
15 Nov |
Lindell Bromham |
ANU |
Vanessa Marcelino |
Community Engagement
Australian BioCommons
Griffith University
My position is funded by Bioplatforms Australia and hosted at QCIF at Griffith University.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which I work and pay my respects to their Elders, both past and present.
