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Adjunct ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Adjunct Professor Michael Holmes
Adjunct ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Adjunct Professor Norelle Daly
Adjunct ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Honorary Professor Michael Goddard
Honorary ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Professor Wanjin Hong
Honorary ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Honorary Professor Melissa Little
Honorary ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Emeritus Professor Jenny Martin
Emeritus ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Honorary Professor John Mattick
Honorary ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Honorary Professor Luke O'Neill
Honorary ProfessorInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Honorary Professor Vicki Sara
Institute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Body:Professor Vicki Sara was elected Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney in 2004. Professor Sara is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Professor Sara’s previous appointments include Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Council from 2001-2004 and Chair of the Council and a member of the Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC), and the CSIRO Board from 1997-2001. Professor Sara was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Rio Tinto Foundation for a Sustainable Minerals Industry from 2002-2007, Consul General for Sweden in Sydney from 2006-2007, andwas appointed Vice-Chair of the OECD’s Global Science Forum in 1999 and member of the Advisory Board of the APEC R&D Leaders’ Forum in 2002. She was Director of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics from 2004-2009, the Australian Institute of Commercialisation 2007- 2010, Chair of the Board of the Australian Stem Cell Centre from 2005-2008, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology 2011-2012, and Chair NSW Panel Sir John Monash Scholarship 2011-2013. Professor Sara was elected Convenor of the University Chancellors Council 2006-2008 and 2011-2012.
Professor Sara returned to Australia in 1993 following a research career at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
She was awarded the Rolf Luft medal in 1993 for excellence in endocrine research by the Karolinska Institute, and also received the Sir John Eccles Award from the NH&MRC in 1994. She was appointed as foreign Professor of Karolinska Institute in 1995. She was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Southern Queensland in 2004, the Victoria University in 2005, the University of Technology Sydney in 2009, and the University of Sydney in 2016. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of the University, Queensland University of Technology in 2006.
Professor Sara was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to science and higher education in 2010
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Dr Lachlan Coin
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Professor Lachlan Coin is a mathematician with a research focus on developing genomics and bioinformatics tools in infectious disease and cancer. He was originally drawn by the rigour and intellectual challenge of pure mathematics but now uses his maths background as a toolkit for solving complex problems in analysing high throughput biological data.
Professor Coin is best known for using approaches borrowed from machine learning, statistics and probability theory to interrogate genomic data.
In particular, Professor Coin has focussed on using these approaches to uncover genomic deletions and amplifications and has identified changes that are associated with increased risk of obesity and diabetes.
He has also developed approaches for finding minimal biomarker signatures associated with disease, and has applied these approaches to find biomarkers that distinguish bacterial from viral infection, and for the presence of active tuberculosis infection. He is also applying his methodology to develop a diagnostic tool for cancer from cell free DNA
Ultimately, Professor Coin is motivated by making discoveries that are routinely used in clinical practice and to inform public policy to improve health outcomes.
Professor Coin holds an Honorary Professor appointment with UQ, and is a Professor at the Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne.
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Mrs Tania Da Silva Duarte
Postdoctoral Research FellowInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Dr Quan Nguyen
Senior Research FellowInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Researcher biography:Dr Quan Nguyen is a Group Leader at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), The University of Queensland. He is leading the Genomics and Machine Learning (GML) lab to study neuroinflammation and cancer-immune cells at single-cell resolution and within spatial morphological tissue context. His research interest is about revealing gene and cell regulators that determine the states of the complex cancer and neuronal ecosystems. Particularly, he is interested in quantifying cellular diversity and the dynamics of cell-cell interactions within the tissues to find ways to improve cancer diagnosis or cell-type specific treatments or the immunoinflammation responses that cause neuronal disease.
Using machine learning and genomic approaches, his group are integrating single-cell spatiotemporal sequencing data with tissue imaging data to find causal links between cellular genotypes, tissue microenvironment, and disease phenotypes. GML lab is also developing experimental technologies that enable large-scale profiling of spatial gene and protein expression (spatial omics) in a range of cancer tissues (focusing on brain and skin cancer) and in mouse brain and spinal cord.
Dr Quan Nguyen completed a PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Queensland in 2013, postdoctoral training in Bioinformatics at RIKEN institute in Japan in 2015, a CSIRO Office of Chief Executive (OCE) Research Fellowship in 2016, an IMB Fellow in 2018, an Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship (2019-2021), and is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council leadership fellow (EL2). He has published in top-tier journals, including Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Genome Biology and a prize-winning paper in GigaScience. In the past three years, he has contributed to the development of x8 open-source software, x2 web applications, and x4 databases for analysis of single-cell data and spatial transcriptomics. He is looking for enthusiastic research students and research staff to join his group.
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Dr Son Nguyen
Higher degree by research (PhD) studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Ms Miranda Pitt
Higher degree by research (PhD) studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:0Supervisor:Mr Haojing Shao
Higher degree by research (PhD) studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Chenxi Zhou
Higher degree by research (PhD) studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Mr Hyun Jae Lee
Higher degree by research (PhD) studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Ms Janice Reid
Honours studentInstitute for Molecular BioscienceResearcher profile is public:1Supervisor:Ms Dilys Li
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