Postdoctoral researchers
- Dr Kelly Wyres (DPhil) – K. pneumoniae genomics
- Dr Sebastian Duchene (PhD) – Phylogenomics
- Dr Zoe Dyson (PhD) – Typhoid genomics
- Dr Margaret Lam (PhD) – Genomic islands in K. pneumoniae
Research assistants
Lab Manager
- Louise Judd (PhD) – Microbiome, Illumina & Nanopore sequencing
Graduate students
- Jane Hawkey (PhD student) – Mobile elements and resistance; Salmonella phylogenomics, ISMapper developer
co-supervisor: Helen Billman-Jacobe, Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences - Claire Gorrie (PhD student) – K. pneumoniae genomic epidemiology
co-supervisors: Adam Jenney, Alfred Hospital and Dick Strugnell, Dept Microbiology & Immunology - Yu Wan (PhD student) – Bacterial gene networks
co-supervisors: Justin Zobel, Dept Computing & Information Systems and Mike Inouye, Baker Institute - Stephen Watts (PhD student) – Respiratory microbial communities
- David Edwards (PhD student) – Evolution and selection in pathogen populations, RedDog developer
co-supervisor: Bernard Pope, Melbourne Bioinformatics
Masters students
- Cassandra Litchfield (MSc Bioinformatics)
- Macgregor Todd (MSc Bioinformatics)
- Marialena Michanetzi (MSc Bioinformatics)
Honoraries / Visitors
- Dr Shu Mei Teo (Postdoc) – Human microbiome and asthma development (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Owen Qin (PhD student) – Drug resistant tuberculosis (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Qin Qin Huang (PhD student ) – Expression QTLs (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
- Howard Chung (PhD student ) – Systems genomics of asthma (Inouye lab, Baker Institute)
Previous staff & students
- Dr Paul McAdam (postdoc) – TB phylogenomics
- Dr Mark Schultz (postdoc) – A. baumannii phylogenomics and metagenomics
- Danielle Ingle (PhD student) – E. coli genomics
- Harriet Dashnow (MSc Bioinformatics/VLSCI intern) – SRST2 development
- Morgan Cerqueira Alves (3rd-year Biochemistry research project) – ESBL in K. pneumoniae
- Wassif Kabir (3rd-year Biochemistry research project) – Salmonella Kentucky phylogenomics
- Partha Sarathi Gope (MPhil student) – Plasmid bioinformatics
- Damien Zammit (MSc Bioinformatics student) – Recombination analysis
- Gittan Blezer (Visiting from University of Utrecht)
Some of the lab attending AMIGOS in Sydney (Ryan, Paul, Claire, Jane, Harriet, Shu Mei, Stephen, Wan)
Lab members working on a team project to analyse the genomes of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus isolated from a local hospital.
