Abstract

Improving Reproducibility in Cell based Experiments

Anthony Davies, Director, The Queensland University of Technology

Over the last few years there have been a number of reports highlighting the problem of poor reproducibility in biological research. Indeed it was reported by Nature News (Nature doi: 10.1038/nature.17711 September 2015). That Irreproducible biology research costs approximately $28 billion per year in the United States alone. In this presentation we will describe our plans and current progress in attempting to address this issue specifically in the area of cell based assays and phenotypic screening. This Australian Led initiative will incorporate and utilise both methodological technological innovations to meet the aims our project aims. Currently our focus is on the utilisation of High Content Imaging and analysis for this task.