I’m a Senior Research Officer at WEHI working in the area of sequencing bioinformatics. I’m interested in improving research outcomes through software and novel computational methods.
Using equivalance classes for differential transcript usage and variant detection in RNA-seq data | Australian Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) Conference 2020, virtual watch | slides
MINTIE: identifying cryptic variants in cancer transcriptomes using RNA-seq data | Victorian Cancer Bioinformatics Symposium 2019, Melbourne slides
SVclone: inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction | Machine Learning in Genome Biology Conference 2019, Kiama
Neo-adjuvant treatment resistance in aggressive prostate cancer is driven by non-genomic mechanisms | New Frontiers in Cancer Research Post Doc Symposium 2018, Melbourne
SVclone: inference of cancer cell fraction using structural variation | Australian Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) Conference 2017, Adelaide slides | Awarded oral presentation runner-up prize
Investigating the evolution of structural variation in cancer | PhD Completion Seminar 2017, Walter + Eliza Hall Institute watch | slides
SVclone: A Dirichlet Process clustering approach for investigating the evolution of genome structure in cancer | Data61 and Australian National University, Canberra 2016 (guest presentation)
Investigating intra-tumour heterogeneity of prostate cancer using structural variation | Australian National University, Canberra 2016 (guest presentation)
Reconstructing the evolution of cancer cell populations – methods & challenges |
VLSCI LSCC NGS Informatics Meeting, Melbourne 2014
How we became bioinformaticians: the student experience(with Andrew Lonsdale & Harriet Dashnow) |
International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB) 2014, Sydney slides
My experience with the Master of Science (Bioinformatics) course(to prospective students) |
Graduate School of Science Information Session 2013, Melbourne University
Integrated genomic analysis of structural rearrangements in hormone-driven cancers |
COMBINE Student Symposium 2013, Melbourne
Diagnostic Genomics for Prostate Cancer(to general audience) | National ICT Australia Technology Showcase 2013, Albury-Wodonga
Posters & lightning presentations
MINTIE: identifying novel structural and splice variants in cancer transcriptomes using RNA-seq data(virtual poster) | Victorian Cancer Bioinformatics Symposium 2020 watch | poster
MINTIE: identifying cryptic variants in cancer transcriptomes using RNA-seq data(lightning talk & poster) | Australasian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) Conference 2019, Melbourne
SVclone: inference of cancer cell fraction using structural variation(lightning talk & poster) | Australian Prostate Cancer Conference 2017, Melbourne poster | Received poster presentation award
SVclone: inference of cancer cell fraction using structural variation(lightning talk & poster) | Lorne Cancer Conference 2017
SVclone: inference of cancer cell fraction using structural variation | Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School 2016, Hinxton UK
Investigating intra-tumour heterogeneity of prostate cancer using structural variation |
Lorne Genome 2016
Investigating intra-tumour heterogeneity of prostate cancers using structural variation(lightning talk & poster) | ISMB/ECCB 2015, Dublin Ireland poster
Using structural variations for phylogenetic reconstruction of tumour evolution | Lorne Cancer 2015 (also presented at INCOB 2014 Sydney and ABiC Melbourne 2014) poster
