Updates – #BIBC2025

2025-07-14	Abstract submission extended by one week Last chance! The abstract submission has been extended by one week and is due now on 21st July 2025 5PM AEST. Those who have already submitted their abstract will get an individual email confirmation and an opportunity to revise their abstract until the new deadline.
2025-06-29	Workshops Pre-conference workshops are now open for registration: Generalized Nonlinear Models in R by Heather Turner Analysing Complex Survey and Subsample Data (with R) by Thomas Lumley Lost in Translation: Speaking Statistician in a Multi-Lingual World by Peter Humburg and Eve Slavich Deep Learning and Computer Vision in R: A Practical Introduction by Patrick (Weihao) Li See more details here. As places are limited, please register early to secure your spot.
2025-04-14	Open for abstract submissions We are pleased to invite submissions for abstracts for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital, to be held on 24th-28th November 2025 at Canberra, Australia. The conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and educators to share ideas, current research findings, and emerging trends in the development and application of statistical and data science theory and methods to problems in biosciences. Key themes and topics We welcome abstracts addressing, but not limited to, the following areas: Agricultural Statistics Bayesian Statistics Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Design or Surveys Demographic or Population Modelling Ecological or Environmental Statistics Generalised Linear Mixed Modelling Machine Learning or Deep Learning Medical or Health Statistics Multivariate Statistics Spatial/Temporal Modelling Statistical Consulting/Workflow/Practice Statistical Genetics/Omics/Bioinformatics Submission guidelines Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words written in English presented either as a talk or a poster. Submit your abstract here by 14th July 2025. For questions or further information, please contact conference@biometricsociety.org.au.
2025-02-24	Call for invited sessions and lunchtime discussions The organising committee invites expression of interest for invited sessions and lunchtime discussion topics to be held during the conference. Invited sessions aim to bring together experts to discuss emerging trends, present cutting-edge research, and engage in meaningful discussions on specialised topics that will be of interest to the biometrics community, over a 90 minute period. Lunchtime discussions, over the 60 minute lunchtime break, are an opportunity to discuss in parallel forums issues or topics of common interest to attendees, e.g. what skills are needed by modern biometricians, how should we interact with the machine learning and artificial intelligence community, best practices for statistical consulting, emerging research topics and so on.