ICT for Life Sciences Forum Students Chapter - COMBINE
We are a community of (mainly research) students in Melbourne and other parts of Victoria who are doing research or are otherwise interested in computational biology, bioinformatics or any other area of computational and mathematical life sciences. Being under the umbrella of ICT for Life Sciences Forum we are an autonomous student chapter seeking to connect interested students and young researchers.
We do this primarily by organising a series of social events and seminar & discussion events where interested students and young researchers can meet to find out about each other's research, to find people interested in their work, to make contacts for collaboration and co-operation, and of course - to have fun!
The social events usually take place in a quiet pub or bar on a weekday evening, where people can socialise in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere, away from the fluorescent lights of the offices.
The seminars are usually followed by an informal discussion session with wine and cheese. We are trying to create a good mix of seminar topics and presenters. While we plan to have regular talks by leading Australian and international researchers from all areas of computational biology, we also want to have regular meetings where our members get a chance to present their own work and and to receive feedback from others.
Staying in touch
This current website is a placeholder. When the ICT for Life Sciences Forum is officially launched and it's primary website becomes active, our website will be integrated with the main Forum site. We plan a number of features to help people connect, including a forum and a number of other things. Until then, this temporary website will be used to introduce ourselves and to inform about our events.
In addition we run a mailing list on Yahoo (it will be replaced by our forum in future). We strongly recommend that our members and those who are interested in coming to our events subscribe to that list as this is currently our primary form of talking to each other. Subscription to the list requires approval, but this is merely to prevent spam. You can register using your Yahoo ID or any other email address. For details please visit http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/combine-group/.
Events
You can find information about our past and future events here. As most of our events include free drinks and food, we need to know the number of people attending up-front. For this, we require everyone who plans to attend to register (which is of course - free). Currently, registrations are by emailing to 
. Please make sure that your intent to register and the specific event are clear from the subject line.
Upcoming events
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Student symposium. | Thursday, 27/08/2009, 3:00pm-5:30pm. |
| Venue: | Brown Theatre, Level 1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Building 193) University of Melbourne Map: http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/CampusMaps/Parkville.pdf (PDF, 365 KByte) |
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| Registration: | Registration is free. Email your details details (name, contact details, institution, position (e.g. PhD student)) to combine.symposium@gmail.com by by 24 August 2009. | |
| Further info: | The COMBINE Student Symposium is a chance for students in
computational biology and bioinformatics to share their research with fellow students
(and others) in the field. There will be six short (15 minutes) presentations by students,
followed by refreshments. See also poster (PDF, 235 KByte). |
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| Abstract submission: | Abstracts (title and a brief description of the presentation) should
be emailed to combine.symposium@gmail.com by July 27, 2009. Six abstracts will be selected by the COMBINE organising committee and the results announced by August 3, 2009. |
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| Scope: | The scope of the symposium is any subject in computational biology, bioinformatics and computational modelling in life sciences. Note that this is not a formal, peer-reviewed conference, but a less formal opportunity to share your results with others and receive feedback. Summaries of already published work, work in progress, or work soon to be submitted are allowed and encouraged. | |
| Prizes: | The best presentation as judged by the organising committee will receive a $100 bookshop voucher. |
Past events
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Social event. | Thursday, 18/06/2009, 6pm onwards. |
| Venue: | Caffeine @ Revault. 344 Swanson Street. (Basement Building 16, RMIT.) | |
| Registration: | Closed. | |
| Further info: | See poster (PDF, 575 KByte). | |
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Social event. | Thursday, 28/05/2009, 6pm onwards. |
| Venue: | European Bier Cafe (basement lounge). 120 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. | |
| Registration: | Closed. | |
| Further info: | See poster (PDF, 560 KByte). | |
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Seminar & discussion. | Tuesday, 27/11/2007, 5:30pm-6:30pm. |
| Venue: | Brown Theatre, Level 1, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Building 193) University of Melbourne Map: http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/CampusMaps/Parkville.pdf (PDF, 365 KByte) |
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| Registration: | Closed. | |
| Further info: | 30 mins seminar by Prof. Terry Speed + 30 mins discussion & drinks. Also see poster (PDF, 225 KByte). |
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Social event. | Thursday, 15/11/2007, 6pm onwards. |
| Venue: | European Bier Cafe (basement lounge).120 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. | |
| Registration: | Closed. | |
| Further info: | See poster (PDF, 175 KByte). | |