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: Dong X, Tian L, Gouil Q, Kariyawasam H, Su S, De Paoli-Iseppi R, Prawar YDJ, Clark MB, Breslin K, Iminitoff M, Blewitt ME, Law CW, Ritchie ME. The long and the short of it: unlocking nanopore long-read RNA sequencing data with short-read differential expression analysis tools. NAR Genom Bioinform. 2021, 3(2):lqab028. PMID: 33937765

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

Haoyu Yang, PhD Student, BSc(Hons) MSc Melbourne

Yue You, PhD Student, BSc Zhejiang

Kathleen Zeglinski, PhD Student, BSc(Hons) Melbourne

Changqing Wang, Masters Student, BSc Melbourne

Mei Du, Research Assistant, BSc MSc Melbourne
Speciality: RNA-seq analysis