Thank You!

On behalf of the Local Organising Committee, we would like to thank you for attending the 44th Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA) Annual Scientific Meeting held in Adelaide SA (1-day hub) and Online.

Though we were sorry not to see you all in Adelaide, we were pleased to see over 80 SA delegates attend the 1-day hub day on Sunday 15th August.  We're sure all Adelaide delegates enjoyed the opportunity to meet face-2-face!  

We were also pleased to see over 500 delegates, exhibitors and speakers enjoy the three days virtually, providing outstanding scientific presentations, poster sessions, online networking opportunities, and a virtual Industry Exhibition.

We are extremely grateful to all our speakers, sponsors and exhibitors without whom the conference would not be possible! Special thanks goes to our:

  • Platinum Partner: Illumina
  • Gold Industry Session Partners: Agilent & PTC Therapeutics
  • Gold Espresso Partner: BioMarin
  • Conference Partners: Decode Science/Bionano, TrakGene & AstraZeneca
  • All our exhibitors.

Thank you also to our hard working Local Organising Committee for their commitment and time over the last 3 years!

Congratulations to the winners of the following awards at the Annual Scientific Meeting.

New Investigator Award
Dr Clara Chung for her presentation “Phenotype and deep sequencing in an Australian Tuberous Sclerosis Complex "No Mutations Identified" cohort”

AACG Trainee Awards
The judges decided to give 2 split first and second prizes this year.
Joint First Prize goes to: Shuxiang Goh and Alison MacLean, with Joint Second Place to: Lavvina Thiyagarajan and Alison MacLean (for a different presentation).

ASDG Karen Snow-Bailey Award for best oral presentation
Mr Paul Dunn for his presentation "Investigation of mitochondrial variants identifies a link between cerebral small vessel disease and Alzheimers disease."

ASGC Awards
Best student prize: Fiona Lynch.  Best oral presentation: Laura Forrest.  Best poster: Ellenor Martin.

Prize Draw Winners
The following will receive a free full conference registration to the 2022 ASM in Perth:
Amanda Howden, Lachlan Jolly and Shannon Leblanc.

Platinum Partner


Gold Partners





Thank you to our Local Organising Committee


Sarah Heron

Co-Chair

Andrew Dubowsky

Co-Chair

Tod Fullston

Treasurer

Lachlan Jolly

Secretary

Lesley McGregor

AACG Rep

Rachel Fraser

ASDG Rep

Aideen McInerney-Leo

EESIC Rep

Drago Bratkovic

ASIEM Rep

Gemma Correnti

ASGC Rep

Jarrad Dearman

ASGC Rep

Melissa Monnik

ASGC Rep

Leanne Pacella-Ince

HGSA Rep

Alicia Byrne

HGSA Rep

Raman Sharma

HGSA Rep






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