Conferences

A conference is a unique opportunity for getting your science field into the news media.

You’ve invested time and energy on getting top thought leaders together in place.

We can help you to make the most of it: from putting out a press release and getting the buzz up in the lead-up, to building a conference media room and even organising an outside broadcast on site.

We can also set up and manage conference media centres, with facilities for journalists and media briefings, and put together special media and public events and photo opportunities.

For more information, or help running your conference media email: niall@scienceinpublic.com.au

Below is a list of conferences and related media releases we have published in recent years:

International Congress of Genetics 2023
26th World Mining Congress 2023
Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2022
Better Futures Forum 2022
RACI Centenary Chemistry Congress, 23-28 July 2017
15th World Congress on Public Health, 3-7 April 2017
Joint 13th Asia Pacific Physics Conference and 22nd Australian Institute of Physics Congress, 4–8 December 2016
21st Australian Institute of Physics Congress incorporating the Australian Optical Society Conference, 7–11 December 2014
AIP Congress, incorporating the 37th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 9–13 December 2012
Climate Change Research Strategy for Primary Industries Conference, 27–29 November 2012
International Conference on High Energy Physics, 4–11 July 2012

Media releases from the International Congress of Genetics

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Paranoid plants, productive sheep, queen bees, wheat, barley, rice, bin chickens, flower and fruit yield

Agricultural genetic stories from the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne.

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Antidepressants, bowel cancer, ancient DNA, liver, heart, short stature, and Indigenous inequity

Friday at the Genetics Congress

Genetic health stories from the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne. Read on for more information about each story.

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Bin chickens; platypus threat; bilby poo; isolated koalas; sex changing fish

Thursday at the Genetics Congress

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A prize for nonsense and quality control

mRNA ‘quality control’ pioneers Allan Jacobson and Lynne Maquat receive US$500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize in Melbourne

Every plant, every animal, every human depends on mRNA to accurately translate the DNA of their genetic code into proteins, the building blocks of life.

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Fast living killifish reverse muscle wasting. Could we?

Photo credit: Avnika Ruparelia

Life’s tough for African killifish. They only live for three to four months. They suffer from the same diseases of old-aging that we do – cancer, short telomeres, and wasting muscles. But in their old age the muscle wasting slows and may even reverse. Could that happen to people as well? Avnika Ruparelia is unraveling the mysteries of vertebrate aging at Australia’s only killifish research facility.

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Stuttering Gene found. Fast living killifish reverse muscle wasting. Solving cold cases. Concerns about gene testing and genomic medicine.

And more at the International Congress of Genetics

  • New gene linked to persistent stuttering, thanks to Michael Hildebrand’s team across 18 institutions. Brain imaging shows that people with this defective gene develop anomalies in brain regions critical for speech.
  • Early and personalised interventions into cerebral palsy are possible from broad genomic testing, says Clare van Eyk from Robinson Research Institute.
  • Killifish suffer from the same diseases of old-aging that we do – cancer, short telomeres, and wasting muscles. Then the muscle wasting slows and may even reverse. Could that happen to people as well? Avnika Ruparelia unravels the mysteries of vertebrate aging at Australia’s only killifish research facility.
  • Faster, kinder, less expensive: using genomic sequencing to diagnose mitochondrial disorders has many benefits says MCRI’s John Christodoulou.
  • Cold cases: around 70% of patients with suspected genetic disorders don’t get a diagnosis from their genomic testing. Fiona Lynch from MCRI is exploring if reanalysis years later could solve these cold cases.
  • 71 per cent of Australians believe that gene testing does not necessarily contribute to effective cancer or disease treatment, according to a survey released by Illumina. At the same time lives are being transformed, for those in the know.

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Teeth reveal missing slavery stories; who owns and benefits from DNA; capturing the Tree of Life, Tiger genetics, prostate DNA

And more from the International Congress of Genetics in Melbourne

  • Catch-22: perils, promises, and profit from Indigenous peoples. Dr Krystal Tsosie, a member of the Navajo Nation, realised that her cancer research was unlikely to help her people. So she founded the Native BioData Consortium – to ensure that Indigenous people benefit from their DNA and data. Her research has been featured in the NYT.
  • Capturing the genetic code of every species in the Tree of Life. Mark Blaxter’s UK team have sequenced their first thousand species as part of a bold project to read the genome of every species on Earth. He will report that some animals throw away some of their DNA in their bodies (retaining it in their germlines).
  • Reconstructing the lives of some of the 12 million Africans forcibly transported to colonial Americas. Maria Nieves-Colón is piloting the use of tooth DNA to start to discover the history of enslaved workers at a sugar plantation in Peru.
  • Prostate cancer: a blood test for circulating tumour DNA could reveal which patients are at higher risk according to Bernard Pope from the University of Melbourne
  • Do jumping genes enable mosquitos to adapt to urban environments, asks Spain’s Dr Josefa Gonzalez
  • Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, African Biogenome Project leader Anne Muigai, Science Executive Editor Valda Vinson on Women in Science – unique journeys to different peaks, with Jen Martin.
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