People
Our group during a coastal research retreat in February 2019.
The group was disbanded in 2021. Everyone listed here was once a part of the group.
Members as of 2021
Aaron Darling – Formerly: Group Leader; Now Director of Software Development at Illumina
University of Technology Sydney, Building 4, Level 7
email: aaron.darling (at) uts.edu.au
twitter: @koadman | google scholar | UTS staff profile
Dr. Daniela Gaio – Ph.D. student -> Postdoc, metagenomics of probiotic and antibiotic treatments in a model system
Sidaswar (Sid) Krishnan – Ph.D. student, recombination and gene flow in microbial communities
Cosupervised by Dr. Matt DeMaere, A/Prof. Dominik Beck, and Prof. Justin Seymour
Frederick Jaya – Completed a Masters Research degree on bioinformatic analysis of recombination. Went on to become research staff at the University of Sydney.
Nehleh Kargarfard – Ph.D. student, scalable inference of recombination from bacterial phylogenies
Cosupervised by Dr. Mathieu Fourment
Dr. Matt Z. DeMaere – Postdoctoral Research Associate, computational metagenomics and Hi-C data analysis
Went on to become the institute bioinformatics lead at the UTS C3 institute.
google scholar | github | twitter
Dr. Kay Anantanawat – High-throughput DNA sequencing facility manager
Went on to a continuing staff role at Illumina Australia Pty Ltd
UTS profile
Dr. Leigh Monahan – Postdoctoral Research Associate, long-read sequencing technologies
Went on to a continuing staff role at Illumina Australia Pty Ltd
UTS staff profile
Dr. Barbara Brito-Rodriguez – Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow, joint with NSW Dept. of Primary Industries
Went on to a staff role at the NSW Department of Primary Industries
UTS staff profile
Lab Alumni
Dr. Johanna Wong – Postdoctoral Fellow, bioinformatics for the OUTBREAK project
Went on to a staff role at the NSW Department of Primary Industries
UTS staff profile | twitter: @johannawhwong
Kevin Ying – Binfie, long-read sequencing technologies
github
Went on to a continuing staff role at Illumina Australia Pty Ltd
Dr. Michael Imelfort – Binfie, long-read sequencing technologies
google scholar | github | twitter
Went on to Longas Technologies Pty Ltd
Dr. Mathieu Fourment – Postdoctoral Research Associate, phylogenetics
google scholar | github
Went on to an independent faculty position
Christian Cabato – data analyst for long read sequencing technology development
Brent Bevear – Honours student 2019, bioinformatics of single molecule HIV data
Cosupervised by Dr. Barbara Brito-Rodriguez (UTS), Dr. Martin Smith (Garvan), and Dr. Kirston Barton (Garvan/KCCG)
Liza Kretzschmar – Ph.D. student in algae toxin transcriptomics and phylogenetics, went on to AMSI internship at Lion Brewing
github | twitter
Joyce To – went on to Senior Research Assistant with Prof Cynthia Whitchurch, UTS
UTS staff profile
Maylis Dadvisard – Research intern (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Rachel Kwong – Honours student 2016, with Dr. Catherine Burke
Sunaina Bansal – Research Assistant
Melissa Gardiner – Postdoctoral Research Associate, went on to University of Sydney
Michael Liu – Postdoctoral Research Associate
Myrtille Michel – Research intern (Univ. of Lyon)
Matt Denney – Research intern (University of California-Davis)
Raymond Wan – Visiting postdoctoral scholar (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ethan Wyrsch – Honours student 2013 (UTS, went on to a PhD and Postdoc at UTS)