AGTA Small Grants Scheme awards are to conduct a project deemed by AGTA to be of benefit to the wider Australasian genomics community.
2017/2018 Recipients
Quentin Gouil ($3,500) – Detecting non-CG DNA methylation by Nanopore sequencing
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Ruby Lin ($3,500) – Molecular Microbiology Meeting
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Dominique Gorse ($3,500) – Australia-wide UCSC Genome Browser Training Workshop
Queensland Facility Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB)
2015/2016 Recipients
Maria Doyle ($3,200) – Real-world analysis training for wet-lab genomic researchers
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Matthew Ritchie ($3,000) – Australasian Bioconductor Developer’s meeting and hands-on training workshop
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
2014/15 Recipients
Ms Harriet Dashnow ($5,000) – Genomic Data Analysis Roadshow: Training the next generation of scientists
Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
Dr. Justin Jong Leong Wong ($5,000) – Improving the efficiency of Pacific Biosciences SMRT Sequencing to detect long RNA transcripts
Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program, Centenary Institute, N.S.W.
2013/2014 Recipients
The 2014 recipients of the inaugural AGTA Small Grants Scheme, each awarded $5,000 to conduct a project deemed by AGTA to be of benefit to the wider Australasian genomics community.
Tumor Bank at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, N.S.W.
Dr. Gisela Mir – Library preparation, targeted DNA capture and sequencing from limited amounts of DNA from FFPE samples
Molecular Genomics Core Facility, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne VIC.
Dr. Kim-Anh Le Cao – Workshop: multivariate methodologies for big data, theory and application using the mixOmics R Package and web interface
University of Queensland
Dr. Marcel Dinger – Clinical genomics roadshow for bioinformaticians and medical scientists
Garvan Institute for Medical Research