Wednesday 4 August 2010

Speaker: Professor Richard O. Sinnott, eResearch Director, The University of Melbourne

Venue:  Bio21 Institute Auditorium, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville

Time: 4.30 to 6.00pm

RSVP at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sinnott_lecture_rsvp

This event is proudly supported by the MDHS Research Domains, Bio21 Cluster and the Bio21 Institute and is free to attend. Followed by light refreshments. 

Brief bio and lecture details:

Professor Richard O. Sinnott has recently been appointed as the eResearch Director for the University of Melbourne. Prior to coming to Melbourne, Richard was the Technical Director of the UK National e-Science Centre (NeSC); Director of e-Science at the University of Glasgow and  Deputy Director (Technical) for the Bioinformatics Research Centre also at the University of Glasgow. eResearch is a key enabler for biomedical and health sciences research offered through access to faster secure communications networks, research instruments and facilities, massive data volumes, sensor networks and high performance computing resources. In this talk Prof. Sinnott will provide a brief overview of eResearch and describe some of the biomedical and clinical platforms that he has been involved in developing and deploying. These include security-oriented platforms for:

• large scale genomic sequence analysis;
• access to and use/comparison of microarray data sets;
• analysis of small interfering RNA;
• research into hypertension, depression, sex development and cancers

These platforms are now used by researchers and for multi-centre clinical trials. The purpose of this talk is to raise the awareness of eResearch and its possibilities as well as to explore future eResearch collaboration in the health and medical sciences. The talk will be followed by a mixer to facilitate new collaborations.