People

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

Andrew Siebel － Research Manager

Andrew completed his undergraduate BSc(Hons) degree in Zoology and Physiology at The University of Melbourne (1996-1999). His PhD was in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology enrolled through the Department of Zoology, the University of Melbourne and Howard Florey Institute. Andrew then received a prestigious NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowship (2005-2009) to work on developmental programming of adult disease in the Department of Physiology. He moved to the Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Research Institute in 2009 to work firstly in the Human Epigenetics laboratory, then the Metabolic and Vascular Physiology laboratory (2010-2015). His research interests include cardiovascular physiology, glucose metabolism, lipid biology and interventional clinical trials.

Bobbie Shaban  (in memorian) － Genomics Data Specialist

Originally from Perth, Bobbie obtained a double degree in Molecular Biology and Computer Science at Murdoch University. He has worked in a number of Bioinformatics roles including as a bioinformatics officer at the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University, the Health Protection Agency UK (Now Public Health England) where he worked on The FF100 Swine flu database and also the Enteric Molecular Typing Network for the 5 nations and at the Australian Genome Research Facility here in Melbourne. In previous roles he was the administrator of the Cluster scheduling software (Sun Grid Engine) and was a Bioinformatician specialising in Genomic Assembly, RNA virus discovery, High performance computing and software pipeline optimisation.  He also has experience in Web development, Database admin and creation, a number of computing languages including PERL, PHP and the MVC Frameworks Laravel and Ruby on Rails.

Damjan Vukcevic

Dr Damjan Vukcevic is a statistician and data scientist, specialising in statistical genetics. He completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree at the University of Melbourne in 2004, including an Honours project in bioinformatics with Professor Terry Speed. He was then awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in statistical genetics with Professor Peter Donnelly. Dr Vukcevic has contributed to a number of important genetic studies, including the landmark multi-disease genome-wide association study by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, published in Nature in 2007. This received a number of awards, including Research Leader of the Year from Scientific American. Dr Vukcevic has experience working in both an academic and non-academic environment, with a strong grounding in statistical theory, computation and practical data analysis.

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

• 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

Prof. Anthony J. Hannan
Research Lead, Mental Health Mission
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
The University of Melbourne

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

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

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

Associate Professor Michael Menden
Associate Professor in Biochemistry & Pharmacology
Biochemistry and Pharmacology
The University of Melbourne

Prof Alicia Oshlack
Head of Computational Biology
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
School of Mathematics and Statistics
The  University of Melbourne

Professor Terry Speed
Bioinformatics Division
WEHI

Dr Nadia Davidson
Bioinformatics Division
WEHI

Dr Benjamin Goudey
Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health
The University of Melbourne

Professor Lachlan Coin
Doherty Institute
The University of Melbourne

Dr Patricia Jusuf
Senior Lecturer and Group Leader
School of BioSciences,The University of Melbourne

Professor Tim Stinear
Dame Kate Campbell Fellow | Director WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans | Co-lead Centre for Pathogen Genomics | Deputy Head of Department |
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne

Professor Matthew McKay
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne |
Professorial Fellow (Hon.) | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity, The University of Melbourne | Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Lab (VIDRL) The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity

Dr Patricia Menendez
Lecturer in Statistics (Data Science)
The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Agus Salim
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

Dr Sasha Garbali
Research Fellow in Mathematical Physics
The University of Melbourne

Dr Irene Gallego Romero
Head, Human Genomics & Evolution
St Vincent's Institute Medical Research (SVI)

Dr Davis McCarthy
Head, Bioinformatics & Cellular Genomics
St Vincent's Institute Medical Research (SVI)

Associate Professor Charles Robin
School of Biosciences
The University of Melbourne

Dr Justin Bedo
Senior Research Officer
Papenfuss Lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Associate Professor Justin Rubio
Head, Neurogenetics Group
The Florey

Dr Damjan Vukcevic
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University

Professor Rory Bowden
Genomics Lab Head and Centre Manager
Advanced Technologies and Biology Division, WEHI

Professor Alex Andrianopoulos
School of Biosciences
The University of Melbourne

Professor Robin Gasser
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor
Veterinary BioSciences
Parisitology
The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Heroen Verbruggen
School of BioSciences
The University of Melbourne

Dr Romain Guerillot
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Bernie Pope
Bioinformatics Lead, Melbourne Bioinformatics |
Associate Director (Human Genome Informatics), Australian BioCommons
The University of Melbourne

Dr Anna Trigos
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne | Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences | Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences
Monash University

Dr Alexander Zarebski
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics and Statistics | Faculty of Science
The University of Melbourne

Malcolm McConville 
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor | NHMRC Principal Research Fellow | Associate Director, Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology | Convenor, Metabolomics Australia | Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology

Associate Professor Danny Park
Academic Lead | Principal Research Fellow
Melbourne Bioinformatics | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences 
The University of Melbourne