ABACBS x CompBioAsia Workshop

We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop that will bring a team of international researchers to Brisbane, Australia to teach a comprehensive line-up of comp bio topics. Dates are planned for 8th to 12th June 2026.

Course Overview

This intensive five-day workshop, derived from the NSF-funded program CompBio Asia (compbioasia.net), introduces participants to modern computational biology methods that integrate genomics, structural biology, molecular dynamics (MD), and artificial intelligence (AI). The program has been developed to expose researchers and graduate students to different branches of computational biology and to encourage them to apply these approaches to their research problems. Through lectures and hands-on sessions, participants gain practical experience in modeling, simulation, and machine learning approaches for biological data analysis and drug discovery.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Analyze protein sequence data

• Perform protein structure modeling and visualization

• Run and interpret molecular dynamics simulations

• Apply AI and machine learning to biological problems

• Use AlphaFold3 and docking tools for structure prediction

• Predict protein–ligand interactions

• Integrate genomics with structure and dynamics

• Integrate experimental and computational approaches

Target Audience

• Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers

• Early-career scientists in bioinformatics and computational biology

• Researchers transitioning into AI-driven life sciences

ABACBS will be subsidising some of the costs to run this workshop. Stay tuned for EOIs and registration details that will be opening soon!