Our people and research

Meet the team behind Melbourne Integrative Genomics and learn more about the research that drives them.

Research groups in Melbourne Integrative Genomics

Our researchers

  • Katalina Bobowik

    Project title: Transcriptomic characterisation of immune and disease-related traits within Island Southeast Asia
    Github link
    Supervisor: Irene Gallego Romero

    Qian Feng

    Project title: Phylogenetic modelling of malaria var genes
    Github link
    Supervisor: Yao-ban Chan/Heejung Shim

    Anubhav Kaphle

    Project title: Statistical methods for trans-ethnic genetic studies
    Google Scholar link
    Supervisor: David Balding

    Ali Mahmoudi

    Project title: Inference under the coalescent with recombination
    Github link
    Supervisor: David Balding

    Elisabeth Roesch

    Project title: Hybrid modeling in Systems Biology
    Github link
    Supervisor: Michael Stumpf

    Georgia Tsambos

    Project title: Statistical techniques for studying admixture and local ancestry
    Github link
    Supervisors: Damjan Vukcevic & Stephen Leslie

    Davide Vespasiani

    Project title: Functional analysis of archaic variants in modern Indonesians
    Google scholar link
    Supervisor: Irene Gallego Romero

    Yiwen (Eva) Wang

    Project title: Managing batch effects in microbiome data
    Github link
    Supervisor: Kim-Anh Lê Cao

  • Al J Abadi

    Bio: Al has an extensive academic and industrial background in computational science and modeling with versatile applications in Engineering, Pharmaceutics, and Computational Biology. His research at MIG is primarily focussed on novel approaches in multivariate integrative data analysis methods with applications in high-throughput single-cell sequencing technologies. 
    GitHub link
    Supervisor: Kim-Anh Lê Cao

    Christina Azodi

    Bio: Working at the interface of data science and bioinformatics to study the effects of DNA variation on gene expression at the single-cell level.
    GitHub link
    Supervisor: Davis McCarthy

    Ashley Farlow

    Website
    Google scholar link
    Supervisor: Stephen Leslie

    Anissa Guillemin

    Project title: Stochastic gene expression implications in cell fate decision-making.

    Bio: I did my PhD in Biology in the Laboratory of Biology and Cell Olivier Gandrillon. We developed research projects with multidisciplinary approaches with particularly interest in understanding cell decision-making. Since February 2019, I have been working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Theoretical Systems Biology group at MIG with Michael Stumpf (Group Leader).
    Google scholar link
    Supervisor: Michael Stumpf

    • Marko Terzin, PhD candidate, James Cook University, May – July 2023.
    • Yi-Wen Hsiao, PhD candidate, July 2022 – July 2023.
    • Prof Ivy Chung, University of Malaya, April 2023.
    • Quentin Le-Graverand, PhD candidate, INRAE Toulouse, Dec 2022.
    • Pedro Salguero García, PhD candidate, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Dec 2022.
    • Attila Csala, PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam, Nov 2019 – March 2020.
    • Prof Malu Calle Rosingana, University of Catalunya, January 2019.
    • Stijn Hawinkel, PhD candidate, Ghent University, March – May 2019.
    • Garrett Hellenthal (University College London, UK), April-June 2019.
    • Murray Cox (Massey University, New Zealand), February-March 2019.
    • Hanaisa Sant'Anna de Pla (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), August 2018-August 2019.
    • Sebastien Dejean (Toulouse University, France), July-August 2018.
    • Jukka Corander (University of Oslo and University of Helsinki, Finland), December 2017-January 2018; November 2019.
    • Tatiana Hessab (Perito Criminal do IPPGF, Rio de Janeiro Area, Brazil) - July 2017-January 2018.
    • Laetitia Cardonnna (IRSTEA, France), November-December 2017 & April 2019.
    • Olivier Chapleur (IRSTEA, France), September-December 2017 & April 2019.
    • Solange Pruilh (INSA Toulouse, France), July-September 2017.
    • Doug Speed (Aarhus University, Denmark), April-May 2017.
    • Paul O'Reilly (King's College London, UK), April 2017.
    • John Whittaker (GSK, UK), April 2017.

  • Damjan Vukcevic

    Dr Vukcevic is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University.

    Andrew Siebel

    Dr Siebel is now the Manager of the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform.

    In memory of Bobbie Shaban

Associate members of MIG

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Professor Anthony J. Hannan

Research Lead, Mental Health Mission, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne

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Professor Christine Wells

Stem Cell Systems, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne

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Professor Mark Dawson

Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Research, The University of Melbourne | Head, Cancer Biology & Therapeutics Program, Head, Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory

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Dr Gerry Tonkin-Hill

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

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Associate Professor Michael Menden

Associate Professor in Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne

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Professor Alicia Oshlack

Head of Computational Biology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

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Professor Terry Speed

Bioinformatics Division, WEHI

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Dr Benjamin Goudey

Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne