Ebony Watson attended last year’s Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology and was so inspired by the presentations, she decided to do a PhD at UQ on machine learning and bio-imaging.
She now works within Associate Professor Jessica Mar's lab (Assoc. Prof. Mar will be speaking at this year’s Winter School) at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN).
Ebony highly recommends STEM research students attend this year’s Winter School. On Twitter she wrote: “If you're a STEM student (especially PhD and Masters), you need to know how to analyse your data. This is an amazing program to learn how, regardless of how much (or little) experience you have in bioinformatics and data science!”
PhD student Simon Thomas, in UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), agrees. Two years ago, he wrote in the 2017 Winter School survey: "Seeing the range of work being undertaken in the real-world gave me the confidence to explore areas that I hadn't previously considered part of bioinformatics, or generally even possible. It also gave me an early introduction to researchers, which somewhat shortened the distance between us, making them more approachable to discuss future research projects."
The Winter School is designed to introduce bioinformatics, mathematical and computational biology to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and others working in the fields of biology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, complex systems analysis, and chemical and medical sciences and engineering.
Australian Genome Research Facility (AGRF) and Bioplatforms Australia are offering a limited number of competitive travel bursaries to undergraduate and postgraduate students to participate in this year’s Winter School (apply by Friday, 31 May 2019.)
