Name: Your Health, Your Future
Start: 2026-05-20T19:00:00
End: 2026-05-20T21:00:00
Location: Wheatsheaf Hotel

Health is shaped by more than just medicine - it’s influenced by our genes, our daily habits, and the care available in our communities. In this event, explore how cutting-edge technologies like gene editing, simple changes to sleep and activity patterns, and community health screening programs are helping people live healthier lives. Expect useful insights, surprising facts, and plenty to think about long after the talks are over.

24-hour health: How much sleep, rest and movement matter

Ty Ferguson (Ty Ferguson is a Research Fellow at Adelaide University. His research explores how daily patterns of sleep, sedentary behaviour and physical activity are influenced by our time availability and external factors such as the weather and climate. )

Health isn’t just about one behaviour, it’s about how sleep, rest and physical activity fit together across the day. Using data from wearable activity trackers, patterns across work weeks, weekends and holidays can show how time is actually spent. Environmental factors such as weather and climate also play an important role in this daily balance. Small shifts in behaviour can add up over time for our health and wellbeing.

Cut it out! Fixing faulty genes to save sight

Ashleigh Geiger (Ashleigh is a molecular biologist and genome engineer passionate about using CRISPR gene editing to both understand and treat a range of human genetic diseases, from inherited blindness to cancer.)

What if blindness could be edited out of our DNA? Gene editing tools like CRISPR are changing how we think about treating disease - but in this game, precision is everything. How do you fix a harmful gene without damaging the healthy ones? This talk dives into the challenges, breakthroughs, and future of gene editing therapies, and how they could one day help restore sight.

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