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    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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  • 15 Sep 2024
    Join us for an exciting journey into the world of taste with Dr Daniel Hwang and Elizabeth Willing as they explore how genetics and art shape the way we experience flavour. 
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    Dr Drew Neavin

    Senior Research Fellow & Group Leader
    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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    Dr Drew Neavin is an NHMRC Early Leadership Fellow and the Group Leader of the Context-dependent Genetics Lab at the University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience.

    Drew integrates statistical genetics with stem cell platforms and single-cell technologies to expand our understanding of genetic regulation across different contexts. She helped establish "village-in-a-dish" stem cell systems that enable high-throughput stem cell culture while reducing technical variability by co-culturing induced pluripotent stem cell lines from hundreds of individuals in a single cell culture dish. She applies this system along with other experimental models to study genetic regulation. She works across multiple disease systems with focuses in neuopsychiatric and cardiac, with a special focus on genetic modulation of drug response. She is keen to build large-scale resources that enable population genetics interrogation that consider diversity across multiple different axes.

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    Mr Benjamin Wu-Yang Khoo

    Casual Senior Research Assistant
    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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    Students

    Ms Kate Topsfield

    Student
    Institute for Molecular Bioscience
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The Edge: Genetics

People have known for thousands of years that parents pass traits to their children, but it is only relatively recently that our technology has caught up to our curiosity, enabling us to delve into the mystery of how this inheritance occurs, and the implications for predicting, preventing and treating disease.

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