Sydney Precision Data Science Centre
@sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social
Extracting insight from the data deluge. We are a world-leading precision data discovery centre at the University of Sydney that facilitates data decision making in the areas of health and wellbeing, food sciences, conservation, and biomedicine.
📌 Early bird enrolments close 30 June — register now to secure the discounted rate.
Sydney Precision Data Science Centre@sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · 3mo agoEnrolments now open: Data Analysis for Precision Health 📊 Gain essential statistical skills to analyse real-world health & medical data. Designed for health professionals & researchers. 📅 28–29 July ⏰ Early bird ends 30 June 🎓20% alumni discount 🔗bit.ly/3PkwfMW
📣 Calling all undergraduate students in Australia interested in analysing complex data! Our three-day online Winter Data Analysis Challenge is back this July! 🏆 1st prize valued at $1000 📅 20–22 July 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4e9jBtU
Enrolments now open: Data Analysis for Precision Health 📊 Gain essential statistical skills to analyse real-world health & medical data. Designed for health professionals & researchers. 📅 28–29 July ⏰ Early bird ends 30 June 🎓20% alumni discount 🔗bit.ly/3PkwfMW
🎉 Our 2025 Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Series has officially wrapped up! A huge thank you to all our amazing speakers for sharing their inspiring research! 🙌🔍 See you in 2026 for more enriching seminars! 🌟 #Bioinformatics #DataScience
Join us next Monday for a talk by Leqi Xu from Yale University! 🌟 📊 Advancing Polygenic Risk Prediction: Integrating Information Across Populations and Health Records ⏱️ 3 November, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Shanlin Ke from The Ohio State University! 🌟 🔬Harnessing the human microbiome for therapeutic purposes ⏱️ 27 October, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Huge congratulations to Associate Professor Pengyi Yang and @shazanfar.bsky.social on their new publication in Nature Methods! 🎉 Their work introduces a powerful new tool to simplify method selection for single-cell multimodal omics data. 🔗 Read the paper: go.nature.com/3JetoCh
Join us next Monday for a talk by Lina Kroehling from Boston University! 🌟 🔬High-resolution Characterization of Age-specific Changes in HPV-negative HNSCC through Building a scRNA-Sequencing Atlas ⏱️ 20 October, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Jeanette Johnson from University of Maryland! 🌟 🧬 Using genomics-informed agent-based models to understand neoplastic phenotype transitions in the human PDAC microenvironment ⏱️ 13 October, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Daniel León-Periñán and Dr Elena Splendiani! 🌟 🔬 Open-ST: High-resolution spatial transcriptomics in 2D and 3D ⏱️ 29 September, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by dcjones.bsky.social from @fredhutch.org! 🌟 🔬 Cell Simulation as Cell Segmentation ⏱️ 22 September, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
🚨 Early Bird registration for ADSN Conference 2025 has been extended by two weeks! Secure your spot at the reduced rate and hear from our incredible keynote speakers: 🎤 Prof Bin Yu 🎤 Prof Karin Verspoor 🎤 A/Prof Yuan-Fang Li 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46nr5o6
Join us next Monday for a talk by feargalr.bsky.social from Flinders University! 🌟 🔬 Bifidobacteria support optimal infant vaccine responses ⏱️ 15 September, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Haotian Cui from University of Toronto! 🌟 📊 Large Models for Single-Cell Omics and Drug Discovery: Data, Pretraining, and Closed-Loop Environment ⏱️ 8 September, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Yue You from Guangzhou National Laboratory! 🌟 📊 A Systematic Comparison of Single-Cell Perturbation Response Prediction Models ⏱️ 1 September, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
✨Next Monday, we are delighted to have Prof Christine Wells @stemcellsystems.bsky.social from University of Melbourne as our Judith and David Coffey speaker! 🧬 The secret sauce – building insights from integrated atlas of human biology ⏱️25 August, 1pm (AEST) 🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Yimin Zheng from CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine! 🌟 🔬The lazy way of pathological images analysis in the era of large models ⏱️ 18 August, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us next Monday for a talk by @anglixue.bsky.social from @garvaninstitute.bsky.social! 🌟 🧬 TenK10K multiome initiative: Genetic regulation of cell-type–specific chromatin accessibility shapes immune function and disease risk ⏱️ 11 August, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
✨Our Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar is back for Semester 2! Join us next Monday as we kick off the series with Dr Rongxin Fang from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social! 🔬Spatial and Functional Analysis of the Mammalian Brain ⏱️4 August, 1pm (AEST) 🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR
🎉 A huge thank you to all the incredible speakers who shared their research in our Semester 1 Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Series! 🧬📊 The series will be back on August 4. We look forward to seeing you soon!
✨Next Monday, join us for our final seminar this semester with Andy Tran from our centre! 🔬From benchtop to bedside: advancing multi-omics statistical methods for precision medicine ⏱️2 June, 1pm (AEST) 🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR
✨Next Monday, we are thrilled to have Prof Marc Wilkins from @unswbabs.bsky.social as our Judith and David Coffey speaker! 🧬 Systems or sub-systems biology? Which can best help us understand the cell? ⏱️26 May, 1pm (AEST) 🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR
✨Next Monday, we are excited to have Prob Shoba Ranganathan @Macquarie_Uni as our Judith and David Coffey speaker! 📊 The 7TM family: are template-based models better than AlphaFold models? ⏱️19 May, 1pm (AEST) 🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR
📢 Announcing ADSN 2025! The Australian Data Science Network Conference will be hosted by the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre and held at the University of Sydney from 10 - 12 November 2025. 👉 Registration and call for abstracts now open. 🔗 spds.sydney.edu.au/adsn2025/ #DataScience #ADSN
Join us next Monday for a talk by Dr Vipul Singhal from Integrated Biosciences Inc! 🌟 🧬 BANKSY unifies cell typing and tissue domain segmentation for scalable spatial omics data analysis ⏱️ 12 May, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
📢 Job Alert! We are recruiting 2 x Research Fellows to work in the new Snow Vision Accelerator which integrates cutting-edge biology, data science, and drug discovery and translational strategies to fight glaucoma. 📆 Applications close 8 June 🔗 bit.ly/44RG0HR
Join us next Monday for a talk by Mark Keller from @harvardmed.bsky.social! 🌟 📊The Vitessce framework for interactive visualization of single-cell data and its applications ⏱️ 5 May, 1 pm (AEST) 🔗 bit.ly/4hZLxiR
Join us online at 1 pm today for our statistical bioinformatics seminar: Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits spds.sydney.edu.au/event/spatia...
Join us on Monday for a our Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar 📊RNA polymerase II at histone genes predicts outcome in human cancer 📣 Dr Ye Zheng ⏱️14 April, 1pm (AEST) 🔗https://spds.sydney.edu.au/event/rna-polymerase-ii-at-histone-genes-predicts-outcome-in-human-cancer/
Join us on Monday for a talk by @boxiangliu.bsky.social 📊Toward a cell-type-specific understanding of complex diseases ⏱️7 April, 1pm (AEST) 🔗https://spds.sydney.edu.au/event/toward-a-cell-type-specific-understanding-of-complex-diseases/
