Team

My team collaborates closely with the Blewitt, Sutherland, Coussens and Smyth laboratories at the Institute. We use and develop advanced computational algorithms to analyse genome-wide data.

We welcome enquiries from individuals with a computational background (statistics, mathematics, computer science) interested in applying their skills to medical research.

Quentin Gouil, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc France MSc France PhD Cambridge
Specialty: Epigenetics
Key Publication: Gouil Q, Baulcombe DC. DNA Methylation Signatures of the Plant Chromomethyltransferases. PLoS Genet. 2016 Dec 20;12(12):e1006526. PMID: 27997534

Peter Hickey, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc(Hons) Melbourne PhD Melbourne
Specialty: Single-cell RNA-seq analysis, Bioconductor

Charity Law, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc(Hons) PhD Melbourne 
Specialty: RNA-seq analysis
Key Publication: Law CW, Chen Y, Shi W, Smyth GK. voom: Precision weights unlock linear model analysis tools for RNA-seq read counts. Genome Biol. 2014;15(2):R29. PMID: 24485249

Shanika Amarasinghe, Postdoctoral Fellow, BSc(Hons) Colombo, PhD Adelaide
Specialty: RNA-seq analysis
Key Publication: Amarasinghe SL, Su S, Dong X, Zappia L, Ritchie ME, Gouil Q. Opportunities and challenges in long-read sequencing data analysis. Genome Biol. 2020;21(1): 30: PMID: 32033565

Xueyi Dong, PhD Student, BSc Zhejiang 
Key Publication: Tian L, Dong X, Freytag S, Lê Cao KA, Su S, JalalAbadi A, Amann-Zalcenstein D, Weber TS, Seidi A, Jabbari JS, Naik SH, Ritchie ME. Benchmarking single cell RNA-sequencing analysis pipelines using mixture control experiments. Nat Methods. 2019, 16(6):479-487. PMID: 31133762

Stuart Lee PhD Student, BCompSc Adelaide MSc Melbourne 
Key Publication: Lee S, Cook D, Lawrence M. plyranges: a grammar of genomic data transformation. Genome Biol, 2019, 20:4. PMID: 30609939

Shian Su, PhD Student, BSc MSc Melbourne
Key Publication: Su S, Law CW, Ah-Cann C, Asselin-Labat ML, Blewitt ME, Ritchie ME. Glimma: interactive graphics for gene expression analysis. Bioinformatics. 2017, 33(13):2050-52. PMID: 28203714

Luyi Tian, PhD Student, BSc Zhejiang MSc Melbourne
Key Publication: Tian L, Su S, Dong X, Amann-Zalcenstein D, Biben C, Seidi A, Hilton DJ, Naik SH, Ritchie ME. scPipe: A flexible R/Bioconductor preprocessing pipeline for single-cell RNA-sequencing data. PLoS Comput Biol, 2018,14(8):e1006361. PMID: 30096152