Session 17: Digital research infrastructure for healthy communities
Wednesday, 4th December 3.00PM AEST | Breakout session
Session abstract coming soon
Moderator
Professor Jan Ellenberg is the Director of SciLifeLab, Sweden. He is distinguished for his many contributions to the cell biology and imaging field, mainly through his position as Senior Scientist and Head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Professor Ellenberg develops and automates quantitative 4D imaging, single molecule spectroscopy, as well as light sheet and super-resolution microscopy, to obtain structural and functional measures of the molecular machinery inside cells.
Panellist
Professor Graeme Jackson is the Clinical Director of the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne Australia, a Neurologist at Austin Health and a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. Professor Jackson’s research is in advanced MR imaging and epilepsy, and the classification and understanding of malformations of cortical development. He has received the American Epilepsy Society award for clinical research, the Lombroso award, Austin Health’s distinguished research award, and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia achievement award for highest ranked practitioner fellow in 2008. His contributions include 352 primary data peer-reviewed scientific papers, with 18,691 total ISI citations (30,977 Google Scholar). In 2021 Professor Jackson secured the largest single Federal Government investment made to epilepsy research in Australia, $30 million.
Panellist
Dr Merran Smith is the inaugural Chief Executive of Australia’s Population Health Research Network (PHRN). PHRN which was established in 2009, is a national research infrastructure focused on the linkage of health and human services data across the Australian population. It receives core funding from the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and co-funding from a range of government agencies, universities and research institutes.
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