Lab members presenting at ICG23 in Melbourne, July 2023
Students shine at the Inaugural Prostate Cancer Health Disparities Africa Workshop, Future Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa (June 2023)
Ist Place for best oral presentation
Jenna Craddock PhD candidate, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2nd Place for best oral presentation
Maphuti Tebogo Lebelo PhD candidate, University of Pretoria, South Africa
3rd Place for best oral (virtual) presentation
He-Shyan Haegar Balnave 2nd year Science student and 2023 Dalyell Intern, University of Sydney, Australia
Best student question
Maphuti Tebogo Lebelo PhD candidate, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Human Origins Seminar and Celebration (2020) in Maun, Botswana, hosted by the Government of Botswana
2nd African Conference on Health Effects of Endocrine Disruptors (2019) at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa, with SAPCS team members
Eva Chan wins The Ridley Ken Davies Award at the Garvan Institute in 2019, with past awardee Liz (Elizabeth) Caldon
ABC studios with Science reporter Robyn Williams, October 2019
Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri wiins the presentation award at the Australian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) Conference in Melbourne 2019 for his spectacular work defining human genome diversity
The lab acquires the new Bionano Saphyr instrumentation with the support of a Ian Potter Foundation grant in 2019
Inaugural meeting of the SAPCS and EAPCS (iDzomo) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The mission to work together to give prostate cancer a voice in Africa, April 2018 (left to right): Micah Ongeri (Kenya), Sean Patrick (South Africa), Riana Bornman (South Africa), Shingai Mutambirwa (South Africa), Vanessa Hayes (Australia), Peter Ngugi (Kenya), Africa (Rwanda) and Raymond Campbell (South Africa)
Pan Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG) Meeting Melbourne December 2017 (left to right): Dan Woodcock (UK), David Wedge (UK), Vanessa Hayes, Chris Hovens (Melbourne) and Dan Brewer (UK)
Riana Bornman delivering baby clothes to the maternity clinic in Vhembe Limpopo in South Africa in 2017, as part of our Southern African Prostate Cancer Study (SAPCS) community outreach
Presenting along with fellow session members at the International Conference on Cancer in Africa, AORTIC in Kigali, Rwanda 2017
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Meeting 2016 in Los Angeles, Bionano Genomics Workshop Speakers Eric Vilain (UCLA) and Vanessa Hayes, with Alex Hastie (Bionano Genomics)
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting 2016, always good to catch-up with colleagues and friends Han Cao (Founder Bionano Genomics), Richard Gibbs (Baylor College) and Todd Dickinson (CEO Cantata Bio)
Celebrating Anton Karlsbeeks PhD achievements with his family and lab members in Sydney 2016
Filming with ABC Catalyst crew Mark Horstman, Keven May and Steve Ravich with the Ju/’hansi in Namibia 2016
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2014, San Diego, Bionano Genomics booth featuring our very own Des Petersen
Des Petersen training at Bionano Genomics in San Diego in 2013 in preparation for the lab to acquire the first optical genome mapper in Australia
Talking with Adam Spencer as the Guest of Honour at the Cancer Institute NSW Premiers Awards, Sydney 2011
Nature-J. Craig Venter Institute Human Genome 10 year celebration with guest of honour Archbishop Desmond Tutu, San Diego 2011
Liz (Elizabeth) Tindall (middle) awarded her PhD (UNSW Sydney) and wins the Cancer Institute of NSW Premier’s award for best PhD scholar in 2010, here with lab members Des Petersen (left) and Rae-Anne Hardie (right)
CBSM Meeting Keynote address in Perth 2010 with host Professor Barry Marshall
Inaugural Ruth Stevens Gani Medal for Human Genetics at the Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science in 2008 and received from Mr Gani
Southern African Genome Sequencing Project publishes the first African genomes including the complete genome of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and !Gubi on 18 February 2010 (Nature) and marks the day with a celebration in Windhoek, Namibia. Members of the team (left to right): Prof Stephan Schuster, Prof Philip Venter, Prof Vanessa Hayes, Prof Errol Holland, Prof Peter Franks and Prof Jeffrey Mphahlele.