Oxford Nanopore at ASMICRO 2026
Overview
Oxford Nanopore are sponsoring, exhibiting and presenting at the Australian Society for Microbiology Annual National Meeting (ASM VIC 2026) in Melbourne. The event brings a multidisciplinary international community of scientists, clinical researchers, industry professionals and other stakeholders working at the forefront of microbial science.
This flagship meeting features an extensive scientific program with plenaries, symposium sessions, invited keynote speakers, poster presentations, and networking opportunities designed to showcase cutting-edge research and facilitate collaboration across academia, clinical practice and industry.
Please also visit us at our booth No.18 and join the workshop to listen to our latest updates if you are able to attend the conference.
Oxford Nanopore Lunch Workshop
Tuesday, 16 June | 12:35 – 13:35
Breakout 4
Registration via the conference official site
More details to follow
Time | Agenda | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
12:35 - 12:40 | Opening & Session intro | Oxford Nanopore team |
12:40 - 13:00 | Talk 1 | Phil Pope, Queensland University of Technology |
13:00 - 13:20 | Talk 2 | Jane Hawkey, Monash University |
13:20 - 13:30 | Talk 3 | Steven Batinovic, Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
13:30 - 13:35 | Q&A | All |
Speakers
Phil Pope, Queensland University of TechnologyAs a microbial ecologist and physiologist, Professor Phil B. Pope leads the Microbial Ecology and Meta-Omics (MEMO) group and has greater than 15 years’ experience using multi-omic tools to deconvolute the intimate genomic and physiological relationships between microbial populations within complex microbiomes that are integral to gut function, health and nutrition of animals. Phil has a BSc from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia) majoring in physical mathematics, with first-class honours in environmental microbiology (2003); a PhD in metagenomics from Griffith University (2007); and postdoc experience at CSIRO with Professor Mark Morrison (2007-2010). Phil moved to Europe in 2010 as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Incoming fellow with renowned enzymologist Prof. Vincent Eijsink and started his group with an ERC starting grant in 2014. Phil is the PI of a Novo Nordisk Fonden fellowship “SuPAcow” and coordinator for the ERA-Net project “ImprovAFish”, which both seek to modulate the feed-microbiome-host axis in cows and fish, respectively. Phil also makes central scientific and management contributions to large national and European collaborative efforts that includes work package leadership roles in two ~10 mEUR Horizon 2020 projects (HoloRuminant and 3D’omics) that are focused on animal-microbiome interactions.
Jane Hawkey, Monash UniversityJane is a computational microbiologist, with extensive experience in development of novel methods and software for typing bacterial pathogens. Jane undertook her PhD in bacterial genomics, focusing on the mobile elements that are responsible for disseminating antimicrobial resistance. She is currently a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow.
Her current research primarily focuses on hospital-associated antimicrobial resistant pathogens. She develops genomic workflows to help infection prevention and control teams better understand and interrupt the spread of these pathogens. She has an emphasis on tracking plasmid transmission between patients and the hospital environment. Additionally, she leads the bioinformatics development of the AMRrules project, which aims to standardize interpretation of resistance genotypes by creating open-source rulesets that predict phenotypic resistance across diverse pathogens.
